Today, I met my boyfriend's family for the first time. We got on the subject of theatre, and his dad brought up "The Book of Mormon", how finally someone was making fun of those "nasty, polygamist, cultist freaks", and if his son ever dated one, he would disown him. I'm Mormon. FML
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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I found out that my boyfriend is a Mormon, when his mother greeted me saying how happy she was her son had found himself a Mormon girlfriend. I know nothing about Mormonism, except from what I've seen on South Park, and I'm an atheist. FML
Today, I answered the door to two Mormon girls from America. I live in the UK and am not religious at all, but I was too polite to slam the door and ended up letting them in. An hour later, a copy of 'The Book of Mormon' and 'My Pathway to Baptism' and I think I'm now a Mormon. FML
Today, I was hanging out with a friend out of state. He had some friends with him and we were all having a great time, until they found out I live in Utah. They instantly assumed I was Mormon and started to act weird around me. This is a frequent occurrence. FML
Today, my boyfriend came over for dinner for the first time. As a joke, my dad answered the door wearing the white church robes that he wears when he is lay-reading during a church service, and said, "Welcome, child of God." FML
Today, I met my boyfriend's family for the first time. I was really excited to meet his brother, since his brother is his best friend. One of the first questions his brother asked me was, "He did tell you he isn't the handsome brother, right?" Followed by, "You aren't a feminist are you?" FML
Today, I brought my boyfriend over to meet the family. After several long moments of silence, one of my sisters burst out laughing, and asked, "Okay, who is this guy really?" FML
Today, I had dinner for the first time with my boyfriend's parents. It was awkward enough without his mom asking, "So, what do you do for fun, besides my son?" FML
Today, I was invited by my boyfriend's parents for dinner at their house. The dinner went well I thought, until I was getting ready to leave. Before I could make it out the front door, I could hear them discussing their disappointment that their son would ever consider someone like me. FML
Today, I was introducing my boyfriend to my parents for the first time. I meant to say, "Mom, Dad, this is Tom." Instead, I said, "Mom, Dad, this is Mom." My boyfriend is now jokingly reconsidering our relationship, and my parents won't stop making fun of me. FML
Today, my boyfriend met my dad for the first time. The first thing he said to him was, "You're an idiot for dating my daughter." FML
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oj101 33
How did people get to despise others based on race, skin colour or religion?
coolboy675 16
Sounds like this was Mormon you bargained for.
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Comments (21)
Ameel_fml 19
It sounds like he's the "nasty" one, tbh. It's sad how ignorant and intolerant people can be, especially since he doesn't even know you.
Voij 16
Out of pure curiosity: Did you make a conscious decision to be Mormon? If not, have you at least ever thought about why you follow a certain religion?
tp50141 10
Most Mormons haven't
Voij 16
Kinda knew I would get downvoted here, since most people hate having their blind faith in something questioned. I wonder why it's so hard for them to take a moment and think: "Why am I following this religion?" There are plenty of reasons to follow any of the vast amount of religions we have today, so why not find some that explain why you believe in yours? (Instead of just saying "I was born to parents who believe in this religion, so obviously it most be correct to believe in this one", which also fails due to the exclusivity of most religions.)
nesscafe_fml 17
Not sure if 24 is trolling or just really dumb...
conqueror57 11
Scientists can show their processes and recreate their findings. Religious leaders cannot.
williamcarter93 13
no 27, the difference is those people in white coats have proof to back themselves up, religion has none
Voij 16
I don't really think there's much use in arguing with him. He basically says that everything that was made by man is not trustworthy. (Such as clothes, computers, carpenting tools, etc.) From what I can gather here, he either decided to waste his and our time by trolling or he decided to stop having blind faith and instead chose to instead be ignorant. On that note, though, I feel that I should probably mention that I never stated that I "believe" in everything science says. I also never said that I didn't follow any religion. (I don't.) What I said was that one should consider religion a choice to be made, whether it's believing in Christianity, Science, Buddhism, not believing in anything at all or one of the hundreds of other possibilities. The only thing that's wrong is never to take even a moment and just consider: "Is there sufficient reason to believe in something else than what my parents taught me?"
N3766 20
27% people believe God created science for trolling mankind... Believe me, I am citizen of internet.
DjeePee 25
Yeah, Trutous, because the only thing that's been studied by scientists is the big bang theory... Besides, it's the big bang theory scientists speak about, the theory of evolution, etc. I have never heard religious people talk about the afterlife theory or the theory of creationism, and this bothers me. But you know what? It doesn't matter what bothers me about religion, it doesn't matter what bothers you about science and it doesn't matter whether OP has blindly followed her parents in her choice of religion or if she thought it thoroughly through - sidenote, all our choices in life are more affected by our environment and less by our free will then we like to think -, because this has no value whatsoever towards this FML.
appelflap 22
Talk this through with your boyfriend ,OP. if he is on your side, you don't have to tell his dad straight away. Give dad a chance to see how good you are to his boy and he'll come around.
pkom96 5
If you knew your dad was like that you probably could have given him a heads up that your bf is Mormon.
SomeRandomGuy15 18
Please read the FML again and notice who was writing it...
knt544 11
Great that you are proud of being LDS. Hopefully your bf's dad realises his bigotry is unfounded.
conqueror57 11
Have a beer and calm down.
HumanWiki 8
Science > Religion
DjeePee 25
This discussion = inevitable closing of the comments.
Jonathan Riedel 10
this Comment = useless & Not important at all right now
Yaen 18
If you don't want people to laugh at your religion, don't have such a ******* funny religion.
JLJ911 8
Maybe u should speak up
perdix 31
Aw, I'm sorry. You'll just need to move on. I'm sure you'll be able to find someone. And someone else. And someone else. And someone else. . .