Temple of Doom

As an atheist I find all religions a little peculiar, despite the many good deeds many of them perform. But there is no question in my mind that the nuttiest of all are the Mormons, a religion founded by an adulterous con man based on a trip to the forest.  These characters have gotten away with murder, polygamy, child rape, incest, kisnapping, mass slaughter (the Mountain Meadows massacre) and any number of other crimes. They despised African Americans until they realized that it was hurting their image, so suddenly they were accepted. In recent years Mormons worked their temple-garment-clad asses off to make sure that California didn't allow gays to marry. And now one of their nuttier nuts Trestin Meacham, a 35-year-old Utah man  is on a hunger strike until the state nullifies its recent decision to allow same-sex couples to get married. So far he has gone 12 days without food and has lost 25 pounds. Let us hope this hateful little bigot loses the rest of his weight in the next month or so.  Yesterday while I was laid up with the flu, I watched hours of ID tv, and was struck by the number of crimes committed by Mormons or even more insane offshoots of the LDS church started by Mormons who wanted even more wives or more frequent sex with children. Yup, the secretive, sanctimonious, supremely prejudiced Mormons have a long criminal record and lots of their members have distinguished themselves in the world of serious crimes, Ted Bundy and Jodi Arias, to name just two.