By kenabrookee - 03/04/2013 05:48 - United States - Northridge

Today, I met my boyfriend's family for the first time. We got on the subject of theatre, and his dad brought up "The Book of Mormon", how finally someone was making fun of those "nasty, polygamist, cultist freaks", and if his son ever dated one, he would disown him. I'm Mormon. FML
I agree, your life sucks 44 008
You deserved it 14 789

Same thing different taste

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oj101 33

How did people get to despise others based on race, skin colour or religion?

coolboy675 16

Sounds like this was Mormon you bargained for.

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It sounds like he's the "nasty" one, tbh. It's sad how ignorant and intolerant people can be, especially since he doesn't even know you.

Out of pure curiosity: Did you make a conscious decision to be Mormon? If not, have you at least ever thought about why you follow a certain religion?

Kinda knew I would get downvoted here, since most people hate having their blind faith in something questioned. I wonder why it's so hard for them to take a moment and think: "Why am I following this religion?" There are plenty of reasons to follow any of the vast amount of religions we have today, so why not find some that explain why you believe in yours? (Instead of just saying "I was born to parents who believe in this religion, so obviously it most be correct to believe in this one", which also fails due to the exclusivity of most religions.)

Not sure if 24 is trolling or just really dumb...

conqueror57 11

Scientists can show their processes and recreate their findings. Religious leaders cannot.

no 27, the difference is those people in white coats have proof to back themselves up, religion has none

I don't really think there's much use in arguing with him. He basically says that everything that was made by man is not trustworthy. (Such as clothes, computers, carpenting tools, etc.) From what I can gather here, he either decided to waste his and our time by trolling or he decided to stop having blind faith and instead chose to instead be ignorant. On that note, though, I feel that I should probably mention that I never stated that I "believe" in everything science says. I also never said that I didn't follow any religion. (I don't.) What I said was that one should consider religion a choice to be made, whether it's believing in Christianity, Science, Buddhism, not believing in anything at all or one of the hundreds of other possibilities. The only thing that's wrong is never to take even a moment and just consider: "Is there sufficient reason to believe in something else than what my parents taught me?"

N3766 20

27% people believe God created science for trolling mankind... Believe me, I am citizen of internet.

Yeah, Trutous, because the only thing that's been studied by scientists is the big bang theory... Besides, it's the big bang theory scientists speak about, the theory of evolution, etc. I have never heard religious people talk about the afterlife theory or the theory of creationism, and this bothers me. But you know what? It doesn't matter what bothers me about religion, it doesn't matter what bothers you about science and it doesn't matter whether OP has blindly followed her parents in her choice of religion or if she thought it thoroughly through - sidenote, all our choices in life are more affected by our environment and less by our free will then we like to think -, because this has no value whatsoever towards this FML.

Talk this through with your boyfriend ,OP. if he is on your side, you don't have to tell his dad straight away. Give dad a chance to see how good you are to his boy and he'll come around.

pkom96 5

If you knew your dad was like that you probably could have given him a heads up that your bf is Mormon.

Please read the FML again and notice who was writing it...

knt544 11

Great that you are proud of being LDS. Hopefully your bf's dad realises his bigotry is unfounded.

conqueror57 11

This discussion = inevitable closing of the comments.

this Comment = useless & Not important at all right now

If you don't want people to laugh at your religion, don't have such a ******* funny religion.

perdix 29

Aw, I'm sorry. You'll just need to move on. I'm sure you'll be able to find someone. And someone else. And someone else. And someone else. . .