Mormons. Go us.

SO.

My job has led me to realize that there are lots of misconceptions about the church. Which is fine. Any religion is prejudiced and bizarre from the outside. I'm not going to say "we're NORMAL!" because, frankly,

we're not.

If you want to know why people think we're weird, and the REALLY AWESOME misconceptions about us, watch this video:

So here are the top 10 misconceptions, and how we actually believe.

10) We don't believe we get our own planets when we die.

9) We are Christians. We don't belong to the Christian Coalition, but we are Christians, in that we believe in the divinity of Christ.

8)  Women are not forced to get married and make lots of babies and stay home. If women want to do those things, more power to them. It's not a requirement.

7) We don't worship Joseph Smith.

6) We don't do weird or gross things in the temple. It's basically a more in-depth church service. Not that different from what we already know.

5) We aren't a cult. We have free will.

4) Caffeine is not banned. Coffee, tea, tobacco, illegal drugs, and alcohol are. Not caffeine. Thank goodness.

3) We don't practice polyamy. Period. we used to. Don't anymore. Hear something about mormons who have lots of wives and such? Not us.

2) We're not racist. The truth is, we don't know why people of african descent couldn't have the priesthood until 1978. Any mormon who tells you different is flying by the seat of their pants. The bottom line is: we don't know. Also, we dont' believe dark skin is a curse.

1) We don't hate Gays. Anymore than people who support certain legislation hate people of the opposite opinon. OBVIOUSLY, there are some crazies out there who happen to both hate homosexuals and be mormon, but you get crazies in any organization.

Anyway. That is the summary of my wisdom from being a representative of mormon.org.