This is a post from exmobabe over at RFM:
To all rational men: would you join this organization?
God is a woman and any mention of Father in Heaven is strongly discouraged.
Only women are allowed to speak for God.
Under no circumstance shall a man hold a position of authority over a woman.
Only women perform church ordinances – i.e. baptisms and blessing their own children.
In the temple women covenant to obey Mother in Heaven, and men covenant to obey their wives.
The fundamental narrative upon which the religion is based has a man obeying Satan to eat forbidden fruit first, explaining why men are subservient to women.
Men are told time and again from their all-female leaders to be submissive to their wives.
At age 12 the girls receive the priesthood with subsequent advancement through the years. Boys receive “Manhood Medallions”.
The main men’s group, the Relief Society, is ultimately run by women as they make the decisions in it’s budget, curricula, and president.
Its founding leaders taught God commanded that one woman may have plural husbands. Also, men are to share their one wife with other men.
The church’s scriptures (D&C 132) contain revelation to the church founder, a woman, in which Heavenly Mother gives young virgin men to the founder, and her husband must accept it or suffer destruction and eternal damnation.
The Book of Mormon has four references to men, and the rest of the book is about women.
Women frequently give men priesthood blessings of counsel, speaking in the name of Heavenly Mother, commanding them to obey their wives and “be faithful”.
The most precious thing a man can give his wife is his virginity/virtue.
Men who lose their virginity before marriage are unclean and not virtuous.
Single men are told they will be exalted if their wives call upon them through the veil.
In the next life a woman will have as many husbands as she wants. Husbands may have only one wife.
Men are educated on making bookmarks, placemats, journal writing, and cooking, while the women are trained in CPR, water safety, outdoor survival, and home and church leadership.
Men wonder what their wife’s temple name is.
Women hold all priesthood leadership positions, including Prophet, Apostles, Stake Presidents and Bishops.
The church founder, a woman, had over 30 now secret husbands. Some of them adolescent boys who are recorded to say they were emotionally blackmailed into sex. Some were happily-married men whom she commanded to marry her in order to “save” their families.
Would any man in his right mind join such a church? And if he did, would he want his daughter a member of it?
Food for thought.
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