I finally got a new razor and got rid of my beard (like the church members asked) and now they say I look less like a Mormon (note I had a beard ONLY because I had no way to shave (mom's sensitive skin and my dad's thick hairs)
2007-06-12 09:00:58 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I don't think you need to be looking like any stereotype and I don't think you need to defend why you hadn't shaved on here either.
2007-06-12 09:39:58 · answer #1 · answered by Peggy Pirate 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ever since David O McKay was president of the church, there has a concerted effort to get the menfolk to shave and look less 'mormony'. This was really the case in the 60's and 70's when the hippies began spouting beards, and the church wanted to distance them from that.
Funny thing is, their 'savior' sports long hair and beard, but I supposed imitating christ is so unchristlike.
2007-06-13 21:03:14 · answer #2 · answered by Dances with Poultry 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ever since the clean shavin thingie of the church, the mormons believe that you judge people by their outward appearance and not whats on the inside, so when I went punk, so my dad would not be sexually attracted to me, he freaked and some of my ward members didn't know what to do either, i went to a singles ward were there was more punk rockers, who looked like me and I fit in to. i was engaged to a mormon guy who had long hair and a glass eye, when I went into the army reserves. He then agreed with my dad that women should not be in the army and I left him for some other guy, because the reserves is just PLAYING ARMY (until your unit is called up for war) one weekend every month, it was bad, I excepted him for who he was, but he couldn't except me. And then he went and agreed with my abusive father. I really couldn't understand mormon men.
2007-06-14 11:44:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Typically, LDS are clean shaven since the days of David O. McKay. Stereotypes still picture us as looking like Brigham Young and his successors in pioneer Utah. It could be you were mistaken as not looking like the stereotype as opposed to not looking like a Muslim.
2007-06-12 16:09:55 · answer #4 · answered by rac 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Muslim + Mormon.... = Musmon? Morlim? Muslon?
2007-06-12 23:00:22 · answer #5 · answered by Fotomama 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You got your Mormon in my Muslim! You got your Muslim in my Mormon!
Reeses Morslim Butter Cups
(Sorry, but it was such an odd question, if you can call it that, I couldn't help it)
2007-06-12 16:06:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Cool! Can we calll them Musmons? Morlims?
2007-06-12 16:06:37 · answer #7 · answered by JAT 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
there is no way a Mormon can look and dress like a Muslim or vice versa...
2007-06-12 16:07:19 · answer #8 · answered by the voice of truth 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We pretty much generalize and lump those in the L-M-N catagory together....it's much easier to remember.
2007-06-12 16:07:14 · answer #9 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋