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> multiple officers were also BYU alumni American Fork, UT is literally 10 miles from Brigham Young University, and BYU represents 1/4th of the state's bachelo
by paulddraper 4mo ago
> multiple officers were also BYU alumni
American Fork, UT is literally 10 miles from Brigham Young University, and BYU represents 1/4th of the state's bachelors degrees.
It's a bit like saying police officers in Italy are Catholic. I'd be more surprised if they weren't tbh.
(Disclaimer: I live near that area and also graduated from BYU.)
- rendall 4mo agoYeah, as a non-Mormon, I agree. I think the Mormon connection is a paranoid distraction. The behavior of the police can be explained by the same kind of corrupt-small-town-police-defending-locals-from-outsiders behavior that happens across the country.
- thaumasiotes 4mo ago> The behavior of the police can be explained by the same kind of corrupt-small-town-police-defending-locals-from-outsiders behavior that happens across the country. Mormons aren't implicated, but I fail to see how this can explain the behavior of the Oregon police.
- gosub100 4mo ago[flagged]
- mrguyorama 4mo agoMormons should not be considered christian any more than Christians should be considered Jewish. You don't get to start an insane cult and say you are christian just because you also have a character named "jesus". Their dogma is not at all christian. A lot of it is pretty extreme blasphemy.
- gosub100 4mo ago2020s christians should not be considered christian compared to 1400s christians. who are you to make such a judgemental statement about a minority?
- _DeadFred_ 4mo agoI think it's the very odd police behavior that's triggered people trying to understand WTF is going on there. It would be smart for the Mormon church to get ahead of this because blowback/reputational damage is hitting them. In the least Mormon Police and Mormon business executives appear to be behaving in ways you would not expect from truly religious/moral people.