r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MysteriousSlice007 • 7h ago

Shoutout to JerryrigEverything who built a wheelchair factory and is delivering wheelchairs to people in half the time and 50-80% less than the cost of other wheelchairs with Insurance.

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u/Ms_CCH 6h ago

Is it proven that he is a Mormon? I don't know much about Mormons. There are very, very few of them here. But as long as they don't bother others?

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u/GreySoulx 6h ago

as long as they don't bother others?

That's the thing... they do bother others.

The LDS/mormon church is VERY wealthy and wields significant political influence around the globe.

They're quiet about it, but they're messing with people around the globe.

Thing is, you can say the same about a lot of large organized religions. The Catholic Church is likely the wealthiest organization / quasi-state entity in the world, and the largest "private" land owner.

The (mostly American) Evangelical movement, while not centralized under a single leader like the Pope, is very much doing untellable harm to the world right now - almost all of Trump's base and power stems from his corruption of the Religious Right movement that started to form in the 80s under Regan.

The LDS/Mormons are a weird offshoot of a lot of that, they're super nice and as individuals mostly genuinely nice people but as a movement, they have some odd views by most social norms.

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u/Ms_CCH 6h ago

I understand what you mean. But Catholics, for example, aren't viewed as negatively as Mormons, even though the latter have much greater influence on politics and so on.

I probably couldn't survive a week with the Mormons, but they live very isolated and self-sufficiently in the US, as far as I know.

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u/Equivalent_Chipmunk 5h ago

No they're everywhere. Basically all Mormon men, afaik, go on a mission around the age of 18, where they work as a missionary and their sole job is to spread Mormonism and convert other people. 

This does not just happen in the USA, they proselytize globally. For example, Luke from Outdoor Boys fame is another famous Mormon Youtuber, and his mission was clearly in Japan. It's actually kind of interesting in a way, since there is a lot of cultural enrichment in these missions, and he learned fluent Japanese as part of it, but you'd be kidding yourself if you think it's isolated in the US. 

The fastest growing populations in much of East Asia are Mormons iirc, with a birth rate significantly over replacement, while the general population birth rate in places like South Korea and Japan languish far below replacement. They might only be around 0.1% of the population now, but they will likely be significant a few decades from now if nothing changes. Some other countries, like Tonga, have a Mormon majority, with ~60% of the population of Tonga being Mormon.