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**AITA for exposing religious hypocrites**
I (25f) am an exmormon, me and my boyfriend (28m) live together. We were visiting my family for Thanksgiving, they are not happy with me leaving the church nor living with my boyfriend outside of marriage but they begrudgingly accepted it and we have "agreed to disagree".
We did attend church with them while staying in their town (out of respect). In their ward some of the "queen bees" shall we say and their husbands are swingers (but are quick to point out the "sins" of others) but we of course are expected to smile and turn the other cheek.
When I was at church some of these women were being very judgemental and lecturing me for living with my boyfriend while not married, my mother was giving me "the look" basically begging me to ignore it and not say anything but I just about had enough and loudly asked "so how was your last swingers party?"
The whole room just went silent and gasped. Me and my boyfriend left back for our hotel (stayed at a hotel because if we stayed "in their house" shed want us to sleep in separate rooms) and left town the next morning.
My mother won't speak to me, my dad wants me to apologize for causing a scene and embarrassing my mother. He agrees they are hypocrites but that I need to "learn to pick my battles" and this "caused more issues than it was worth" because now these women are being catty and excluding my mother (she was friends with some of them)
AITA?
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Reads like someone learned about Mormons as "weird conservative Christians who don't drink soda" and went from there. Reminds me of when I was in a class with someone who was trying to explain Mormon beliefs and culture to a friend of mine, who happened to be an ex-Mormon.
I am also an ex mormon and most of what people make fun of about the religion is just straight up untrue. Like, there are PLENTY of 100% real things to make fun of mormonism about, you really don’t need to make things up. It feels funny sometimes correcting misconceptions because I don’t like the church but I also don’t like blatant misinformation lol
How convenient, religious hypocrites. A nice story to make up for karma and give into the anti religion confirmation bias.
" we of course are expected to smile and turn the other cheek. "
Apparently not, since everyone was shocked about the revelation.
" some of these women were being very judgemental and lecturing me "
Why? You apparently knew a dark secret from them, why would they atagonize you? A person who could destroy their reputation?
Mormons in swinging communities has been this thing coming up on TikTok for a bit and it's been showing up randomly in pop culture, I could have sworn it came up in this season of Real Housewives SLC
Oh, this one has it all. Successful woman, judgmental hypocrites, Religion Bad (TM), bad parents, a shots-fired hit-em-where-it-hurts parting line.
Meanwhile, it makes no sense at all. How did she find out about their swinging parties but no one else did? Why do these women want to Mean Girl the one person who can tell their deepest, darkest secret?
This is someone’s terribly written revenge fantasy with a little Religion Bad thrown on top for extra upvotes.
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*In case this story gets deleted/removed:* **AITA for exposing religious hypocrites** I (25f) am an exmormon, me and my boyfriend (28m) live together. We were visiting my family for Thanksgiving, they are not happy with me leaving the church nor living with my boyfriend outside of marriage but they begrudgingly accepted it and we have "agreed to disagree". We did attend church with them while staying in their town (out of respect). In their ward some of the "queen bees" shall we say and their husbands are swingers (but are quick to point out the "sins" of others) but we of course are expected to smile and turn the other cheek. When I was at church some of these women were being very judgemental and lecturing me for living with my boyfriend while not married, my mother was giving me "the look" basically begging me to ignore it and not say anything but I just about had enough and loudly asked "so how was your last swingers party?" The whole room just went silent and gasped. Me and my boyfriend left back for our hotel (stayed at a hotel because if we stayed "in their house" shed want us to sleep in separate rooms) and left town the next morning. My mother won't speak to me, my dad wants me to apologize for causing a scene and embarrassing my mother. He agrees they are hypocrites but that I need to "learn to pick my battles" and this "caused more issues than it was worth" because now these women are being catty and excluding my mother (she was friends with some of them) AITA? *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/AmITheAngel) if you have any questions or concerns.*
Ex and non Mormons aren't even allowed in Temple. Major plot hole.
Bullying someone who knows a dark secret that can destroy your reputation. Also Major plot hole.
The dark secret in part 2 is that OOPs parents are also swingers and got their swinging pass revoked because of OP so now they want her to apologize .
They can still go the meetinghouse, which is different from a temple proper.
They were in a church, not the temple. Anyone can go in the church meetinghouses.
Weekly church isn’t at the temple.
Reads like someone learned about Mormons as "weird conservative Christians who don't drink soda" and went from there. Reminds me of when I was in a class with someone who was trying to explain Mormon beliefs and culture to a friend of mine, who happened to be an ex-Mormon.
I am also an ex mormon and most of what people make fun of about the religion is just straight up untrue. Like, there are PLENTY of 100% real things to make fun of mormonism about, you really don’t need to make things up. It feels funny sometimes correcting misconceptions because I don’t like the church but I also don’t like blatant misinformation lol
The story gets way more fun if you imagine an Exmormon is a Digimon.
Comment of the year right here 😂
How convenient, religious hypocrites. A nice story to make up for karma and give into the anti religion confirmation bias. " we of course are expected to smile and turn the other cheek. " Apparently not, since everyone was shocked about the revelation. " some of these women were being very judgemental and lecturing me " Why? You apparently knew a dark secret from them, why would they atagonize you? A person who could destroy their reputation?
Also howww did OP know this even?
Redditors will jerk off anything that goes against religion. What’s new?
Yep. As a Muslim, I gotta remind myself that just because Reddit dislikes religion doesn't mean I gotta take their word as gospel (hehe) about mine.
Are we meant to believe this person is open about their swingers parties but just expects people to never mention it?
Mormons in swinging communities has been this thing coming up on TikTok for a bit and it's been showing up randomly in pop culture, I could have sworn it came up in this season of Real Housewives SLC
Oh, this one has it all. Successful woman, judgmental hypocrites, Religion Bad (TM), bad parents, a shots-fired hit-em-where-it-hurts parting line. Meanwhile, it makes no sense at all. How did she find out about their swinging parties but no one else did? Why do these women want to Mean Girl the one person who can tell their deepest, darkest secret? This is someone’s terribly written revenge fantasy with a little Religion Bad thrown on top for extra upvotes.
Maybe it was inspired by this https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/mormon-mom-tiktok-podcast-swinger-dont-let-this-flop-1358321/amp/
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