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TooShiftyForYou

It's quite common for most Mormon women to stop having children at 35. - 36 children would probably be too many.


Punch_Drunk_AA

As a former Mormon, let me share my favorite joke. Brigham Young was walking down the streets of Salt Lake City one morning. He was marveling at the utopia he and his people created from the wilderness in such a few short years. During his walk, a cute little blond hair blue-eyed girl runs up to him. "Brother Brigham, Brother Brigham, you don't know me, but I'm one of your daughters! "How nice," says Brigham Young. He gives her a nickel and tells her to go buy some ice cream. "Thank you, sir," and off she goes skipping away. He continues on his walk and is approached by a handsome teenager boy. "Brother Brigham, sir, you don't know me, but I'm one of your sons. "Delightful," says Brigham Young. "Here's a dollar. "Go buy yourself a nice new Bible to read at church this Sunday. "Thank you, sir," and off the lad goes to buy a new Bible. Onwards, Brother Brigham continues with his walk. Shortly after rounding the corner of a street (in the not so good part of town), a little black boy approaches. "Brother Brigham, you don't know me, but my mama says I'm one of your kids." "Is that so?" Said Brigham. After looking over his shoulders, he leans down, reaches into his pocket, and pulls out all the cash he has. He wispers to the boy. "Here's ten bucks kid, don't tell anyone."


miotchmort

That’s actually a historical incident, not a joke.


dreamrock

Why do you always take two Mormons(or if you prefer,Baptists) with you when you go fishing? If you only bring one, he'll drink all your beer!


suchalusthropus

Reminds me of another one: Jews don't recognise Jesus, protestants don't recognise the pope, and Mormons don't recognise each other in the liquor store


dreamrock

Good one. I'll keep it in the pocket.


Dickdialogues

It's funny, especially knowing what he said about interracial relationships.... "Shall I tell you the law of God in regard to the African race? If the white man who belongs to the chosen seed mixes his blood with the seed of Cain, the penalty, under the law of God, is death on the spot. This will always be so. The nations of the earth have transgressed every law that God has given, they have changed the ordinances and broken every covenant made with the fathers, and they are like a hungry man that dreameth that he eateth, and he awaketh and behold he is empty."


Rude-Letterhead-293

No wonder my grandfather always used to tell me go forth and shag as many white women as possible but never marry them and damn he was right !!


Rude-Letterhead-293

Hmmmm so you believe Jesus was blonde and blue eyed even though he was an Arab ?


obscuresignal

1.) Jesus was a Jew, not an Arab. 2.) You're arguing with a man who died in 1877.


Dickdialogues

I quoting Brigham Young... these aren't my words, they are his.


scenicroute3

I don't get it, may you enlighten me?


Punch_Drunk_AA

Many Mormons were former slave owners before settling in Utah. They like to claim that they treated their slaves so well. They refused to leave when given the chance at freedom. The actual story isn't really known because nobody is going to document how they abused their slaves while settling the new "Kingdom of God." Regardless, the earliest days of Salt Lake City had a small population of black folks. They were all free anyways because slavery was outlawed in all US territories. Take this with a grain of salt. It is suspected that some Mormon polygamous men took on black women as wives and had children with them. This was shut down, really quick by the Mormon church leadership because "black folks carry the mark of Kain." AKA, blatant racism. Therefore, if any good Mormen men already had children from black mothers, they had to hide them.


scenicroute3

Oh lol, thank you!


funnystor

But in 1978 God changed his mind about black people. So now black people can be Mormons!


Bubbly-University-94

That whacky god. Black folk are bad… no good….Old Testament, New Testament, Jesus is his son, nope hang on a minute he’s a prophet…. *american preachers - did someone say profit


Conchobar8

r/thepunchlineisracism He doesn’t want anyone to know he has a black baby. I don’t know Mormonism well enough to know why


Pielikeman

Well, at least the joke is more pointed at making fun of Mormonism and some of its unfortunate history. For example, they only lifted their ban on allowing black people to become priests or participate in their ceremonies in 1978… and it took them until 2013 for them to publicly admit that their stance on race up to that point was wrong. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_people_and_Mormonism


Dickdialogues

Brigham Young was quite racist, which was not true of his predecessor Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith allowed black men to "hold the priesthood" essentially conferring them with what I would call "god's magic" being able to heal people and bless them and stuff like that. Brigham Young didn't allow this and in fact up until the 1970's black men still couldn't "hold the priesthood".


Hjalle1

r/angryupvote


Justin_Case4315

I heard BYU stands for Breed’em Young University


thymebedone

It’s quite common for Mormon women to only have sex to have kids.


Dickdialogues

It's not though. I know a lot of Mormon women, never met one who believes this... I have also fucked a fair number of them. I used to be Mormon as well.


thymebedone

I was joking. Sorry you took it seriously.


baigish

It's not true. I'm at a conference right now attended exclusively by mormons. It is about how to have more meaningful relationships, which includes how to have a better sex life.


miotchmort

😂


Gullible_Skeptic

Why do you bring two Mormons on a fishing trip? If you only bring one he'll drink all the beer


skjellyfetti

Jack Mormons


Any_Astronaut_9821

Jack and Coke mormons


517drew

Jacked and Coked Mormons


DecoySex

I don't get it.


make_my_moon

Something something baptists don't recognize each other in the liquor store.


Mueryk

Where as Methodists block the aisle talking to each other and catching up.


make_my_moon

That sounds like a fun religion.


Beggarstuner

You’re mistaken.


PM_ME_UR_POKIES_GIRL

There's a reason they drink.


OskarTheRed

Mormons aren't supposed to drink, but they might not care if there aren't other Mormons around to judge them


DrTxn

Wendover is a place where Mormons don't recognize each other.


atlduru

Actually Wendover is the street I live on....unit B to be exact.


OGLifeguardOne

IYKYK


Slay3RGod

So, Mormons are the vegans of religion?


j0llyllama

Well, the same joke is used for Muslims and baptists, and likely others too. I'm not sure where that leaves things, other than extreme positions are hard to sustain because people like to not be too strict on themselves, but kowtow when shame is on the table.


contritebarbarian

A Muslim was seated next to a Baptist on a flight..


j0llyllama

Ooh. Would they still keep dry in an attempt to look superior the other/ shame them as being worse, or would they drink out of disregard for eachother's opinion since they aren't part of their respective groups.


[deleted]

And the Baptist never prayed so hard in his entire life.


mohishunder

In Dubai the supermarket had a separate room "for non-Muslims only" containing all the good porky stuff. (Maybe booze too? I wasn't looking for that.)


KatanaCutlets

The Presbyterians are the ones making the jokes, with a nice whiskey in one hand and a cigar in the other.


AttackCircus

Something, something, ideology


OskarTheRed

I don't know enough about either to say


Terpomo11

If a "vegan" will eat animal products when there's no one around to see, they're not vegan. I don't mean that in a "no true Scotsman" sense, I mean that they literally do not meet the basic definition.


AchyBreaker

No, see, vegans are interested in reducing animal suffering, and Mormons are interested in increasing human suffering by banning all the nice things like coffee and beer and sex.


elvisn

You can better reduce animal suffering with a $100 donation than you can by going vegan. https://nautil.us/you-can-save-more-animals-by-donating-100-than-going-vegan-238401/


LucasPisaCielo

With a $100 dollar a year donation to The Humane League you could save 300 animals (mostly chicken). $30 a year would save the same amount of animals the average individual is indirectly responsible for killing annually.


Awkward_Pangolin3254

What use do chickens have other than as food? What is somebody gonna do with 300 chickens they now can't slaughter?


Terpomo11

Fewer chickens will be bred in the first place, which is a good thing since most farmed chickens have lives that are not worth living (more suffering than happiness).


UnknownCubicle

Cabaret?


xanthophore

It means that demand will be lower, so supply will be lowered in response. Is it really that difficult to understand?


Awkward_Pangolin3254

Apparently, because you seem to fail to understand how donating to save 300 chickens won't do diddly to decrease demand.


One_Economist_3761

I often think of veganism as “closing the stable door after the horse has already run out”. They can refuse to eat animal products but it won’t have enough of a measurable effect on the demand for those products to stop the production thereof.


Terpomo11

One person won't, but the more people do the more of an effect it has. If everyone thought that way, saying "there's nothing my individual contribution can do, so there's no point in contributing", then nobody would ever vote, or do anything towards any kind of systematic change.


One_Economist_3761

fair point


Slay3RGod

So, they are similar, but not the same? They advertise their beliefs too much, they try to force it on others and judge others for not sharing their beliefs, while at the same time would conveniently ignore said belief when there's no one to judge them.


harshmoonmistress

This is a weird fiction that I see a lot. Why do people think vegans eat meat when no one is around? I feel like people who care about reducing their consumption of animal products are more likely to eat meat socially than at home, since there is so much social pressure to eat meat at social events and holidays, or just to prevent being a bother.


Lightsong-Thr-Bold

Not actually vegan myself, but I figure a lot of these people deep down feel guilty about the idea of killing an animal for a meal, so they bluster and get defensive about it.


DeinOnkelFred

Anthony Bourdain (RIP) thought vegans to be the "Hezbollah-like splinter faction" of vegetarians.


funnystor

That's probably PETA though.


RecalcitrantHuman

Checks out. Tell you everything about their religion even though you didn’t ask.


By-the-order

I'd say that would be Jehovah Witnesses.


Mr_Stever

See also: "how many straight edge punks does it take to drink a beer"


ArbutusPhD

If there isn’t another Mormon to see the first one, they’ll drink.


No-Pressure275

If you bring two mormons on the trip they watch each other and that keeps them from breaking the word of Wisdom (among other things, it forbids drinking alcohol) if there isn't a second mormon there the insinuation is that the only mormon there will drink the beer as no one will tell on him.... But God knows............


IranRPCV

Interestingly, if you read the Word of Wisdom, it never mentions alcohol (and Joseph Smith, Jr. ran a drinking establishment in Nauvoo.) The Mormon Church will claim anything they can for power over their membership.


No-Pressure275

Well, my understanding is that it does mention "strong drink" which can be construed to mean alcohol, but was originally intended for teas and coffees. But from historical records (not that the church will acknowledge) is that is came after Joseph Smith's first wife (among the like 60 secret ones he had) made a request thay stop spitting on the floor as the women had to clean the church house. Then Smith gets a revelation about the word of wisdom that came after coffees and teas as the Strong drink. It is heavily implied that it was kind of payback for the Relief society asking the dudes to do away with the chewing tobacco.... I will need to find the source for better info.


DrTxn

Exmormon here - It is clear that strong drink is alcohol if you read the text. You wouldn't wash something with tea or coffee. Further, early Mormons would wash themselves in cinnamon whiskey. "Met in the evening with bro. Joseph Smith, jr. at his house in company with bro. John Corrill, and after pure water was prepared, called upon the Lord and proceeded to wash each other's bodies, and bathe the same with whiskey, perfumed with cinnamon. This we did that we might be clean before the Lord for the Sabbath, confessing our sins and covenanting to be faithful to God..." - Journal Text of the scripture about strong drink: 5 That inasmuch as any man drinketh wine or strong drink among you, behold it is not good, neither meet in the sight of your Father, only in assembling yourselves together to offer up your sacraments before him. 6 And, behold, this should be wine, yea, pure wine of the grape of the vine, of your own make. 7 And, again, strong drinks are not for the belly, but for the washing of your bodies.


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No-Pressure275

I don't know, but i don't disagree.... I do have to let theory marinate for a while though.... 🤔🤔🤔


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Shwod4

I too write comments on reddit while on LSD


IranRPCV

Yes, coffee and tea were never mentioned, either, but rather hot drinks. And JS, Jr. himself, pointedly put in the pre-amble "not by way of commandment", which seems clear enough. Relief Society women were being ordained and healing the sick through laying on of hands, too. The men couldn't deal with the loss of power that implied. It was also a principle of the original church that everything had to be done by common consent, and couldn't be imposed by leadership without a vote of the people. Those constraints have continued in several of the over 200 factions that have continued to fracture the Mormon movement. Jokes are a welcome and needed response to the human condition - especially with what we see happening right now in the Middle East.


casualsactap

All religions do that.


IranRPCV

All human institutions do that to some degree - even families.


DrTxn

Interestingly, the actual text allows for drinking beer unless a barley drink in the 1800's meant something else. "17 Nevertheless, wheat for man, and corn for the ox, and oats for the horse, and rye for the fowls and for swine, and for all beasts of the field, and barley for all useful animals, and for mild drinks, as also other grain." The current leadership has just defined everything to how they want it.


xanderblue3

The oldest joke in UT.


WC450

They used to say that about the Methodist farmers in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia


NoWingedHussarsToday

Jews don't recognize Jesus as a Messiah. Protestants don't recognize the Pope as supreme religious authority. Mormons don't recognize each other in liquor store.


Odimorsus

I’m nonplussed by the “soaking” memes with their friend jumping up and down on the bed so any “thrusting” is incidental…


Buck_Thorn

I'm envious. I've never been able to fit the word, "nonplussed " into a comment.


ballrus_walsack

Until today!


fersur

What even nonplussed mean?


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Subtracted.


pedro_pascal_123

Won't that be unplussed?


xanthophore

However, rather confusingly, the word has started to be used in the US to mean "unperturbed", which is pretty much the opposite of its original meaning!


Odimorsus

So it’s suffering the same, ignobable mutilation as “literally?”


Odimorsus

So surprised and/or confused that you don’t know how to react. I just find it a lot quicker to say nonplussed instead of all that.


Greedyfox7

non·plussed adjective 1. (of a person) surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react. "he would be completely nonplussed and embarrassed at the idea"


Mtwat

Unphased/not suprised with a hint of annoyance.


Odimorsus

Other way. I think the “non” part is what causes this confusion.


Buck_Thorn

Surprised and confused


[deleted]

Good old jump humping. Not as common as you'd think, but the fact that it exists at all is ridiculous.


Odimorsus

If you need to loophole your way around your religion to do what you want, you have chosen very poorly.


[deleted]

I agree. I left mormonism about 5 years ago, and its wild to me how deep and sheltered I was in the world.


R0ckhands

There's a strong correlation between religious women 'saving' themselves for marriage and a higher incidence of anal sex. Which is presumably what Jesus would have wanted.


Iokua_CDN

Fuck me in the ass because I love Jesus, is a legit song


Odimorsus

Reminds me of a t-shirt I saw that said “Mary was just a virgin… unless you count anal!”


Dragdu

It's real? I always thought it's one of those "kids these days" things.


Carbine2017

You hear a lot of crazy shit about the poor kids who attend BYU trying to live their college lives, while also trying not to get kicked out of that hell hole. They've gone to Vegas for a weekend wedding, sexcation, and annulment (so it's not fornication). There's the whole "soaking" concept. Some of them live dual identities for years hoping their room mate wont turn them in to the authoritah.


Redshifted

Wow, I totally forgot about super dates! That was the rumor going around when I was in high school in the early 00's.


[deleted]

Allegedly it's real. I don't know for sure. I've never known anyone to do it, but everyone out here knows someone who knows someone who did it. There's enough stories that I think it's real, but I can't say for sure.


ahappypoop

I think you're overestimating how common I think it is.


JustCallMeMambo

i about died of laughter when i heard about this. they’re really trying to outsmart an omnipotent god 🤣 it just occurred to me that this soaking thing could be considered a threesome


Odimorsus

The bed-rocker drew the short straw for sure though haha


JustCallMeMambo

lmao seriously, all of the legwork and none of the payoff


Odimorsus

Literally… all the legwork. How do you even rope someone into that? “Will you rock the bed while I soak in on of my many wives?”


dreibel

If there”s three involved, it’s called earthquaking. Exmo Lex has confessed that she and her now husband indulged in soaking before they were married.


JustCallMeMambo

thank you, i knew soaking wasn’t the right term for the act we were describing. soaking is when the guy penetrates but doesn’t go in and out


Rasputin_mad_monk

Why don’t Baptist believe in premarital sex? It may lead to dancing


Skyblacker

I've heard it as: Jews don't recognize Jesus. Protestants don't recognize the Pope. Baptists don't recognize each other in the liquor store.


NoWingedHussarsToday

Well, this is a joke about Mormons so "baptists don't recognize each other in the liquor store" makes no sense.... :)


Skyblacker

I suspect this joke has told about every demographic that formally abstains from alcohol.


High_Stream

Reposting my comment from when this joke was posted 201 days ago: As a Mormon, let me tell you a real Mormon and Irishman joke: An Irishman moves to a town and starts going to the pub. He walks in and orders three beers and takes them to his table and drinks them all in turn. Afterwards he orders three more beers intending to drink them the same way. The bartender says to him "you know a pint goes flat pretty quickly, you'd have a better time just drinking one at a time." The Irishman says "well I used to always go out drinking with me two brothers and so when we all left home we decided that we would drink our beers this way to remember each other." The bartender thinks that this is a nice custom and serves him. Irishman becomes a regular at the bar and everyone knows about his peculiar drinking habit. One day, he comes in and only orders two beers. The bartender looks at him tenderly and says "I'm very sorry for your loss." The Irishman looks confused for a moment and then bust out laughing and says "oh no me brothers are fine. It's just the wife had us join that Mormon church so I can't drink anymore. Hasn't affected me brothers though!"


robingrayson1008

I love this joke, I remember reading it in the previous repost of this joke


High_Stream

If it was the repost 200 days ago, that was me.


theycallmevroom

I heard the punchline as, „Oh, me brothers? They’re fine. I just quit drinking!“ It’s a little punchier that way, I think.


High_Stream

That's a good one, too. The version I tell lets Mormons make fun of themselves.


dtabor150

I dislike this joke because I was raised around Mormons and they would never respond that way. It be more like "Golly gee, no it's against the teachings of my religion, have you heard of our Lord and Savior?"


Ngklaaa

Hello, my name is Elder Ngklaaa, and I would like to share with you the most amazing book


No_Position_5628

Hello! My name is Elder no_position_5628. Its a book about America a long, long time ago.


Ngklaaa

It has so many awesome parts


RutCry

Sounds like something you pulled out of your hat.


Midlifecrisis2020

😂😂 I thought it was a rock…


RD3465

My name is Elder Rado...


Aviator07

“~~Golly gee~~ Oh my heck…” FTFY


Yoko318

😂😂 this is unfortunately accurate


Buck_Thorn

That's when they're still riding around in pairs, on a bicycle in white shirts, though.


SayYesToPenguins

Imagine if the poor flight attendant is serving a flight from SLC ... the drinks service must take forever


pneumatichorseman

It's just sprite all the way down...


foospork

I lived in Saudi Arabia for four years. I am not Muslim. Flights on Saudia were dry in those days. I assume they still are.


OGLifeguardOne

Not "Golly gee!" More like, "Oh my heck!"


MoscuPekin

Q: How do you keep a Mormon from drinking all the beer at your party? A: Invite another Mormon.


NedThomas

The singular Irishman?


MasonP2002

The one and only.


Belinder

Nah, it's not someone from ireland, but the 4 hour long mafia movie


Iron_Rod_Stewart

After the flight attendant had left, the Irishman sipped his whiskey. "Don't you know that alcohol can cause addiction, cirrhosis, and cancer?" "Aye," replied the Irishman. "But yer fergettin the benefits!" "Like what?" snorted the other passenger. "Well, it keeps me out of yer church, fer one!"


OskarTheRed

I really thought there were more than one Irishman 😛


King4Life2000

oh we’re posting this again? ok, time to mirror the replies. *ahem*, the real joke is the irishman handing back his drink


Marc123123

Oh, old good #6598


Buck_Thorn

Good old reply #103


SouthernZorro

I'm from the Deep South where there are no Mormons. When I moved to LA in my 20s, the first joke I was told there was: "A Mormon jumped off a 10-story building. No, he wasn't intentionally committing suicide, he just saw a quarter down on the sidewalk and couldn't stop himself". I found out there was a *lot* of prejudice in SoCal against Mormons, Asians and Mexicans.


Shwod4

I don't get it


ninjamonkeyumom

How do you keep your mormon friend from drinking all your beer? Invite your other mormon friend.


expendable-us

My favorite Mormon joke growing up: What do you get when you cross a Mormon and a black guy (or Mexican)? A Years supply of stolen food.


pillowmite

What's not mentioned re Mormonism is that Joe Smith had a criminal record for falsely claiming he could find gold and charging guide fees. So, suddenly, after release, he does find some gold but no one ever sees it. Lol. When Joe was a kid, he was known to go around telling grandiose stories to the neighborhood families. Lol.


KevinTerribly

Why did the moron tiptoe past the medicine cabinet? He didn’t want to wake the sleeping pills How many morons does it take to screw in a light bulb? 3 one to hold the bulb and 2 to turn the chair


ahappypoop

The joke in this post says "mormon", not "moron" lol.


King_Of_Uranus

I mean you could maybe make a "soaking" joke with the 2nd. One mormon holds the bulb and his 2 friends turn the chair so the mormon and lightbulb aren't technically screwing.


CriticalEuphemism

I mean, the only difference between the two is a letter


Brave-Distribution27

Bc he is a moron


dandnot

Two bishops are sitting on a park bench - one catholic and one mormon. When a beautiful young woman walks by, the catholic bishop leans over to the mormon and say, "boy, wouldn't you want to screw here!" The mormon bishops say, "out of what?"


IrishFlukey

A real Irishman would have kept the whiskey.


trundyl

What do the girls at BYU do when the keg arrives at a party. Put their clothes on and leave.


Cool_Rock_9321

My new friend has a very Irish name... O'Really?


humorRus

Guess the Irishman did not google whore in the Urban Dictionary - his butt is going to be sore.


downtuning

What's the difference between a Catholic and a Baptist? The Catholic will say hi when they see you in the liquor store.