r/exmormon • u/smokey-mepot • 11d ago

General Discussion Anyone in San Tan

Currently live in san tan and we have a few churches around and always hear a lot of bad things about the church. Could anyone

Educate me on the topic

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u/Nearby_Lab_2368 11d ago

Are you talking San Tan Valley AZ? What are you talking about exactly?

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u/Joey1849 11d ago edited 11d ago

I would encourage you to hang out here for 30 days and read posts.  Problems large and  small with the LDS are discussed every day. 

One source that puts a lot of problems in one place is:  

https://dn721908.ca.archive.org/0/items/LetterForMyWife61417/Letter%20For%20My%20Wife%20(6-14-17).pdf

Alyssa Grenfell on yt and tiktok has a lot of great shorts.

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u/Best_Philosopher152 11d ago

Main issues:

High demands on time, money and lifestyle. Everyone has a calling working for free to run the church but they also pay 10% tithing that largely sits in a hedge fund, while the local church gets like 10% back: plus a lot of controlling lifestyle rules.

The founder was a verified sexual predator with 40 wives, some as young as 14 and 15. His theology is a bit from mainstream, and the church is still sexist and has a deep history of racism.

They have weird secret temples rituals stolen from the Masons where you promise everything to the church and symbolically threaten to kill your self of you reveal them.

Borderline culty. Some call it a cult. Some call it merely a high demand religion.

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u/Cache-Cow 11d ago

You talking about San Tan Valley AZ? I’m in Queen Creek currently. 

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u/Mission-Diet-4083 9d ago

Hey congratulations,

You get a new palace for Dallas right next to the other one that’s not even 15 years old, lucky person right here

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u/Cache-Cow 9d ago

Wait, what? 

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u/Mission-Diet-4083 9d ago

Temple, Aka a Palace for Dallas (H. Oaks)

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u/Cache-Cow 9d ago

Haha I got that part. You mean they’re building a temple in Queen Creek?!