Why do they hate us(Mormon/LDS) so?
552506
who is it that hates you? \n\nand any time ppl get into religion and what's true or not, someone is going to get angry. you believe in your religion and nothings going to change that. most religious ppl dont even have it within them to question what they've been taught. if you're so staunch in what you've learned, why do you expect anyone else would change their minds either? they believe what they've been taught just as strongly as you believe what you've been taught.
362817
Yes, you're right - it's very ironic....\n\nAnd Hell yeah, they act similar. So why do Christians hate them so much?? Yeah, I dont get it....\nHopefully someone can give you a better response to this question than I can.
817134
they don't want to open their mind to the possibility, that what they believe is not really true. I don't really have a problem with mormons, i just wish they would stop claiming they are r a christian church. They've gone off on a tangent.
824708
I think that Mormons have an amazing life style.  If you look in the bible and seek out the life that Christ had, you will notice that Mormons are Saints that beilive Christ, they believe EVERYTHING he has said, he says and all that he will say.  He speaks to his prophets.  God has called a prophet today to lead His children.  Mormons believe this. They are people that are far from perfect. But that's why they keep going to church, cuz they know that keeping the commandments is showing the Savior that they love him.  Jesus Christ is and always will be at the head of His church.  That's why the mormon church is really called "The Church of Jesus Christ of latter-day saints".  It has this name because when  Christ was on earth he had his church, being the name of Jesus Christ.  But because the people didn't believe him back then and they killed his apostals, his perfect church was lost.  So, that's why God had to call a prophet today to organize and RESTORE his true and living church on the earth today.\n                The Jehova Witnesses are God fearing people.  But we shouldn't fear God so much that we don't love him.  I've met them.  They are children of God as well.  But they change the word of God and they have no prophet and they don't believe in certain scriptures or commandments.  The seventh day adventists are good people as well.  They just have the wrong day.   If you truly know the bible, you'll see that Christ broke bread on the FIRST DAY of the week.  SUNDAY !!!!
1175750
as a Mormon i have heard many things over the years and just let people know that i believe that they are wrong, and that they believe i am wrong.  i respect that everyone has their own opinions and i have mine.  people will also make fun of and challenge what is different from their beliefs.  one big thing that we get a lot is that we have more than one wife.  which is not true.  at one point in time we did, but even during that time only 2-5% were apart of polygamy.  another thing i hear a lot is that we re not Christians.  my response is yes we are.  i believe in Christ as my savior and brother to help me get through this life.  i use his teachings in the bible to guide me in what i say act and do.  if this is not a christian than i do not know what is.  getting into Joseph smith is sometimes hard to get  into with those who do not believe, but i just say i believe that he restored Christ church on earth and that he did see god and his son Jesus Christ.  people will either leave you alone or talk bad more.  hope that this helps.
959866
After reading thru your answers I gather that most anti - Mormons are highly mis-informed! The Book of Mormon tells of the first inhabitants of the America's. All the way from the southern tip of South America on up to the Alaskan territories!  The American Indian and the Native Peoples of Mexico are the decendants of these people.  We believe in the same God, the same Jesus, Trinity (Father, Son & Holy Ghost), We definately believe That Jesus suffered in behalf of the all the sinners of the worild that they might be forgiven of their sins. And died on the cross to seal that offer.  And yes we believe in the Bible as far as it is translated correctly!\nI have a challenge. All Mormon Bashers should prayerfully READ the book of Mormon., before deciding what it says. After you've read it and taken Moroni up on his challenge. Then  - lets talk!!
715329
I know what you mean.  Why just the other day I was in the process of making a burnt offering an ox on the alter that I have erected on my front lawn (To get the Lord to rig the next power ball drawing for me, as per the bible, book of Carbonization, 23-10), when I was accosted by a pair of LDS missionaries.  They actually had the audacity to interrupt my opening benediction to ask if I was interested in their religion, and whats more, their caterwauling frightened the ox, who snapped his restraints and bolted, leaving me with a roaring fire, some very sharp knives, and two belligerent missionaries.\n\nAs I am sure you can guess, this sort of threw off my rhythm, and basically ruined the sacrifice.  Whats more, they refused to buy me another ox to sacrifice in place of the one that they had frightened off.  \n\nI just can't understand it.  I mean, I let them practice their religion in peace, why can they not extend the same courtesy to me?
621032
THEY HATE US BCUZ THEY WANNA B OUR SIZE AND THEY 2 DAMN FAT T00 LOZE THA WEIGHT SO THEY JUZT HATE UZ INSTEAD!~ :}\nAM I RIGHT 0R AM I RIGHT
1051778
People hate what they don't understand or what they fear. Isn't it peculiar to have one religion "hate" another religion. God must really love that.
50300
My pet peeve is people that bash other religions, yet the religions they bash they think they know all about. Great question!
602665
Their worried for our souls?\nThey don't like us because, we can cause them to doubt their faith?\nThey don't like our smarta$$ answers?\nLots of reasons, I guess.
1110455
Be strong and of good courage!...remember, Jesus warned us of being hated just because of being a believer in christ!..(Matt. 10:22)....I'm sure you see that devils hate on this site toward religion especially toward christians!....must be doing something right!.....God Bless And keep strong in the Lord!
235609
Of course they should be able to.  Latter-Day Saints have cartoons crawn about them all the time in various publications, we don't go running into the street tipping over cars, setting fires, and demanding blood to avenge our wrong.  We simply get over it and move on.  We are too busy raising our families, trying to obey the law, earning a living, and helping others.  Everyone has the freedom to express themselves any way they wish, what someone says about someone else reveals much more about the accusor than it ever says about the accused.  We have false things said about us (the LDS) all the time, it doesn't make them true, it simply reveals the misunderstandings or intentional dishonesty of those who say them.  Who cares?
567387
The way people act is a little different. I used to live in UT, I'm now in Wyoming, not too different but...\nI remember getting exclude in Church because I was friends with a Muslim, and a Catholic kid. I then didn't understand why my LDS friends wouldn't play with my other friends. I'm glad that I now don't know half of my friends religions. A funny way to laugh at this is to watch "Mobsters and Mormons" It's about an Italian mafia family moving to Utah. It's full of so many funny jokes!
566519
Perhaps it is only "everyone" known to ignorant poor spellers who hate Jehovah's Witnesses. In any event, Jehovah's Witnesses do not live their lives or practice their worship to please humans but rather to serve their God Jehovah.\n\nInterestingly, such "hatred" should be expected by true Christians in this time of the end, and it actually helps identify Jehovah's Witnesses as Christ's true disciples:\n\n(John 15:19) If you were part of the world, the world would be fond of what is its own. Now because you are no part of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on this account the world hates you.\n\n(Luke 6:22) “Happy are you whenever men hate you, and whenever they exclude you and reproach you and cast out your name as wicked for the sake of the Son of man.\n\n(1 Peter 4:4) Because you do not continue running with them in this course to the same low sink of debauchery, they are puzzled and go on speaking abusively of you.\n\n(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching, but, in accord with their own desires, they will accumulate teachers for themselves to have their ears tickled; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.\n\nIt seems signficant that the relatively small religion of Jehovah's Witnesses are the ones best known for their worldwide preaching work. Yet Jesus commanded that ALL who would call themselves "Christian" perform this public work:\n\n(Matthew 28:19,20) Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you. And, look! I am with you all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.”
459091
Every person is a critic.  Anyone will talk bad about something if they don't know anything about it and all they have heard are "stories" from other people.  My best friend is Mormon and I used to think weird things about the mormon church also, until she explained it to me and then I thought, well geeze, every religion believes something different so why do people make fun or talk bad about the Mormon church.  If you ask me, before you judge or tell "stories" about something you aren't even educated in, you shouldn't give your opinion because your opinion may be mis-judging or mis-leading.  There are tons of good that comes from the mormon church.  But beyond that, there is good about almost everything, but until people quit telling all the negatives, we will never know the positives.
611892
they secretly hate us