MSNBC reported today that the Mormon church is expanding into Columbia and Africa. If this doesn't seem important to you, then I suggest you consider the fact that the Church of Latter Day Saints is a religious cult that promotes American exceptionalism, bigotry, and the worst kind of misogyny, and they are among the most aggressive proselytizers the world has ever seen. Because of this, Harold Bloom predicted in his book, The American Religion, that Mormons would eventually become the dominant religion of America and capture the White House. Moreover, that prediction is dangerously close to being fulfilled by Republican candidate Mitt Romney.It is terrifying to speculate that a group of people so deluded and mentally brainwashed that they believe in things such as "magic underwear" could possibly be in control of the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, and they think America is a chosen nation by their "God." While American exceptionalism is a belief that is passively prescribed to by almost all evangelical Christians, it is actually written into the doctrine of this virulent and poisonous religious doctrine.
As secularists, we have a responsibility to confront and oppose the efforts of religious brainwashers such as the Latter Day Saints before it is too late. They are travelling the world converting the gullible and unenlightened to their absurd belief system, and humanists need to answer in kind. This is precisely why I argue that at no time in history has the world needed secular and humanistic missionaries, who might inoculate people in other parts of the world against these religious snake oil salesman, more so than now.
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