I was robbed and beaten by someone claiming to be a Christian. Does that make every other Christian in the world just as bad as the one who beat and robbed me?
I'm surprised you don't seem to understand this simple idea. You can't generalize and hate people you've never met, just because they share the same religion as someone who harmed you. It's prejudice, plain and simple and there is no excuse for it.
You seem to miss the point here, what I said is that I was tortured by Mormons and it was their religion that excused that behavior. The Mormon religion (at least the fundamentalist church) condones child abuse, mind control and disrespect of women, it wasn't just the group of Mormons that were directly responsible for the actions against me it was their religion that gave them the excuse to do so. The honestly believe they were doing what god wanted and it was for my own good.
I'm sure not all Mormons are able to convince themselves that such behavior is okay, but many many of the Mormons I know have been just as judgmental and ruthless as those with whom I have had personal experience, its just part of the Mormon culture. I think that's morally wrong, being cruel to other human beings shouldn't be permissible by any religion or in name of any imaginary "god" no matter how widely accepted that doctrine may have become.
Its not just the Mormons who have been killing, torturing and conquering in the name of their "god", history explains this kind of religious hostility since the dawn of the conception of religion. Which really spells out loud and clear that organized religion is greatly responsible for most of the epic conflicts between the human species. But why is this still excusable today? when the enemy is now our own children or struggling drug addicts, why is it that conversion to a religion is still accepted as a solution when it has always been the problem? How is it that people can still follow in support and worship of some completely idiotic ideals and stand so steadfast behind a concept that is clearly a man made thought control system. It really just makes no damn sense to me!
All religions are cults, some aren't as harmful today as they once were but considering the history of religion there is NOTHING that separates a religion and a cult besides a varied doctrine and how widely conversion is accepted. The structure and methods have always been the same.
