My cousin was a vulnerable, shy kind of guy. He was a loner. The mormons invited themselves around to his house & they befriended him & brainwashed him. They took advantage of someone so weak minded. They had somewhat of a secret business friendship that his parents didnt know about & then, out of the blue, he committed suicide. It is a fact that the mormons influenced his last moments. What is their secret? What could they have said for him to want to kill himself?
And you wonder why i dont like religion, (to be less aggressive)
2007-08-18 05:17:51 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The true story is that the Mormons befriended your cousin when nobody else would.
They did not brainwash him. They do not believe in suicide.
The true story is that he was a loner long before he met the Mormons. That means you and his parents and his other relatives made him a loner or at least allowed him to remain a loner. You should have been kinder to him.
You ask what is their secret. The secret is they are nice when nobody else is nice. They are friendly, It sounds like you should be more like them.
2007-08-22 03:20:52 · answer #1 · answered by J T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First...if he didn't want them around all he would have had to say is "no thank you".
Second...why are you blaming the religion for your cousin's choice to kill himself. We teach free agency with and choice and accountability. And no where do we teach that killing yourself is a good thing.
Third...ever think you didn't know your cousin as well as you thought? Most don't expect people to kill themselves and tend to be shocked when they do, even if all the signs were there.
Fourth...Did your cousin have some sort of mental illness that precluded him from excercising his own free agency. If he did...they wouldn't have baptized him.
Fifth...was he baptized at all? And if he wasn't...why are you blaming it all on the Church?
Sixth...how do you know it wasn't something else that happened to him that made him make the discission? you may think it is out of the blue...but from experience I can tell you that it builds up over time...and it is anything but out of the blue. For all you know...it was someone in the familys negative reaction to his interest in the Church that put him over the edge...not the Church itself. the point is, You don't know. Because YOU don't like RELIGION...you ASSUME it is the Religions fault. If everyone in your family treated your cousin like you are describing him here...is it any wonder that he didn't feel worthy to be alive? In the end...it was still HIS CHOICE.
I'm not saying there aren't bad seeds in every religion...but you can't blame the Church for your cousins discissions. He had his free will...he made his choice. Now it is between him and God. By trying to blame the Church, you are demeaning him in death the way it looks like you demeaned him in life.
2007-08-18 07:25:12 · answer #2 · answered by LDS~Tenshi~ 5 · 4⤊ 1⤋
I think that your cousin had some SERIOUS issues long before he ever met the missionaries. What sort of "secret business friendship" are you talking about, anyway?
Most people don't commit suicide because of the voices of us, but the voices in their heads.
2007-08-19 19:40:51 · answer #3 · answered by mormon_4_jesus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ward I once attended baptized a 30 year old woman with the mentality of an 8 year old child - her family are not members, but she remains in their care. Someone from the elders quorum picks her up every sunday for church then brings her home.
Whether there is a moral here or not, I've always maintained she was baptized for the body count, not because she understood anything the missionaries taught her.
This appears to me as another example of an organization taking unfair advantage of those who are powerless to think for themselves or understand the significance of their 'choice'.
2007-08-18 16:59:53 · answer #4 · answered by Dances with Poultry 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I am very sorry for you loss. I don't know enough about Mormons to say what could have influenced him, if anything. I do know that true faith in God does not cause one to become suicidal. That's one of the things I am trying to stress to Muslims about their prophet Muhammad. He was suicidal after being visited by a spirit. It could not be from God. I don't like religion in general, but I do love God!
God Bless.
2007-08-18 05:27:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I agree with Tenshi. There is only one reason your cousin killed himself. You should be angry with him for that and nobody else. It was HIS choice and HIS hand that Murdered his soul.
If anything, the LDS Church probably prolonged his choice for a time before he finally gave up on himself as would any good religion that teaches truth.
2007-08-18 09:14:30 · answer #6 · answered by microbioguy 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
that's easy to poke relaxing. every person can do it. anybody has heard the call of Joseph Smith. "you do not understand me--you on no account will. You on no account knew my heart. No guy is regular with my history. i'm unable to tell it; I shall on no account undertake it. i don't blame every person for not believing my history. If I had not experienced what I even have, i could not have believed it myself." --Joseph Smith, April 7, 1844.
2016-10-16 01:10:16 · answer #7 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mormons don't advocate suicide but being around "unsaved" people can make you a sinner by assocation. That is one of their brainwashing tatics but no more than other churches.
If, your aunt and uncle wouldn't join, he may have thought he was going to go to hell or they would send him to some baptist-based deprograming camp. Most people when they find some truth somewhere, they lose they're fear of death because the truth has set them free, whatever.
Basically, he was so vunerable, he was going to get picked up by some charletan. It just happened to be mormons.
2007-08-18 05:48:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
When people follow blindlessly and not allowed to question their religion they have given total control to a few of their life and they will do anything. look how many believed in some of the false prophesies of some groups and given up everything just to see the day come and go, it is called brainwashed and control.
2007-08-18 05:24:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
they look for young kids who look lost and feel alone already and then they convince them that their parents and family and friends don't really love them...but not all religions do that
2007-08-18 05:27:32 · answer #10 · answered by candace b 3 · 1⤊ 3⤋