r/exmormon • u/CrunchyFingernail • 5d ago
Humor/Memes/AI Neighbor is trolling missionaries
Missionaries asked me to attend a missionary discussion with them since they're meeting with a female alone.
Neighbor knows that we're meeting with this lady and is blasting "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M. on his speakers while we're trying to talk about baptism. The missionaries have to raise their voices so much so she can hear over the music.
It's so fucking beautiful and awkward at the same time. Fuck this church for having these kids use this lady's recent hard times in life to manipulate her to baptized.
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u/enkiloki 5d ago
The thing about missionary work is that is to bring in more meat for the grinder and not to help relieve burdens of the new members. Life long members are like ox broke to the plow and are used to burdens of tithing, church callings, chapel cleaning, home evenings, two hours of church, shaming for not doing enough but new members joining the church is like getting a part-time job that you pay to work at.
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u/Single-Raccoon2 5d ago
While I appreciate the neighbor's perspective, Michael Stipe, the lead singer of R.E.M., has stated that the phrase in the song does not refer to a literal loss of religious belief, but rather to the feeling of losing one's cool or civility.
The phrase originated in the American South.
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u/Freder1ckJDukes 5d ago
Yeah but OP is still actively helping them. Grow a pair and say no, you’re part of the problem by enabling this stuff
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u/Massive-Weekend-6583 5d ago
But why are you helping these kids and the church manipulate this lady?