We have been giving the Mormons a hammering over the last few days. Although I find their beliefs highly improbable, it is hard not to admire their loyalty to them and their willingness to defend them. They say adversity makes us stronger, and this sect has had enough of that to become very strong.
For me, what is far more concerning are the pseudo religious cults that abuse their members and challenge us all through their defiance of our laws and societal values. Prime amongst these must be the fast-growing Scientologists whose depravity is becoming increasingly better understood.
For some strange reason we have given this cult the status of being a religion even though it has no gods, and is antithetic to everything we understand by the term “religion”, (except on the fund raising side) even when taking into account the full broad sweep of religious beliefs and practices across the entire world.
This false status greatly assists this cult by giving it force of law in spreading its influence and in enriching itself through the misappropriation of the wealth of all who come under its influence.