I posted the above video in a secret exMormon group last night with the note that Joseph Smith was a “flim flam” man.
Wilbur’s opinions formed after many observations and interactions. It wasn’t based on just one contact with them. Wilbur made this video several years ago after an exasperating visit with his now ex-wife’s family, who are LDS.
I thought what Wilbur said, while neither particularly respectful nor gracefully stated, was largely based on truth. Someone had posted it on RfM and it garnered a lot of discussion. It was the very first video I ever saw him do. I have posted Weird Wilbur’s “Most Mormons are Jackoffs” video on my blog before. He’s a pretty funny guy, who has sadly fallen on some hard times in later years.
I later got to know “Weird Wilbur”, the guy who made this video. (Apr.I first saw this video on the Recovery from Mormonism messageboard, years ago. Laake, now executive managing editor of the New Times magazine chain, writes that she has emerged from her experiences as an independent woman, no longer in thrall to religious dogma.
Torn between her loyalty to herself and to her church's teachings, she plunged into a second Mormon marriage it, too, failed, and led to a mental breakdown. After her divorce, for example, Laake found that although her ex-husband retained his religious privileges, she was banned from the temple and condemned by Mormon elders. Laake's heartfelt record of this disastrous first marriage and the years of struggle that followed is at once autobiography and an expose of the repressive patriarchalism of the Mormon church. As a 19-year-old sophomore at Brigham Young University, she became a Mormon wife. Laake, raised as a strict Mormon, was taught from childhood that Mormon men were ``priesthood holders'' anointed with the authority to act for God on earth, and that her entrance into heaven could be assured only if she married a Mormon man who would be her master.
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