Man, you've barely scratched the surface.
8. First Vision
9. Near-deified founding "prophet"
10. Veils
11. Book of Mormon & D&C/Koran
12. Gender separation in worship
13. Word of Wisdom
14. Born on the frontiers of and in reaction to a great civilization whose roots are primarily found in Classical traditions
15. Radical splinter groups and unrealistic denial of shared history and traditions
16. Subordination of women achieved not just doctrinally but through societally enforced early marriage and heavy child bearing and disproportionate child rearing burdens and denial of education and worldly occupations to women
17. Visceral antagonism toward contiguous civilizations rooted in Classical civilizations and the Enlightenment
18. Cloak of denial around the derivative quality of their own religious tradition and civilization and debt to civilizations they hate
19. Progressive members trapped in the tradition but hopeful of reformation, which more orthodox elements understand would effectively kill the distinctiveness of the institution and therefore the institution itself
20. Nomadic history
21. Intermarriage intolerance
22. Clothing prescriptions for all
21. Absolute intolerance of dissent
22. Bearing testimonies
23. Great Apostasy/one true church/last dispensation dogma
24. Sexualized eternal salvation lore
(I could probably sit here all day and think of similarities. Islam and Mormonism are just alike.)
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Last edited by SeattleUte; 08-15-2016 at 06:01 PM.
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