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Originally posted by TerryHepner
Coming from a large Morman family, its always good (sarcasm) to see how much hate there is towards the "other major religion". A little FYI, religion is always a bad topic because everyone is 100% convinced that only their religion is correct.
Every religion has its well intentions but also its "strange to an outsider" side. To me, its weird for any member of the local church to be paid and not just volunteer their time to the church. It's also weird to me to think that if there is a heaven, that just because you didn't pick the correct religious in your 0-100 years on each you are banished to hell. So I find it strand that other religions don't have some similar type of belief. Hell if the Mormans are wrong then the baptisms don't matter anyway. I won't mind a few extra chances  .
If you get the interest to be religious, research and pick one that makes you happy. Don't hate other people for not being identical to you (they call that ignorance and they call those people bigots).
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1) It is MormOn, as BetaRose already pointed out, how could you repeatedly spell it wrong if you are one? The people I know have always preferred LDS (shortened form of Latter Day Saints)
2) Since there is a belief in Jesus, LDS members are classified as Christians, so Mormonism isn't so much a religion, but a sect or a denomination. A different religion that is major would be, for example: Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and so on. Believing in Christ makes one a Christian, and it is further broken down by Catholic, Protestant, LDS, etc, but the common tie is CHRIST.
3) My church has people that volunteer and a paid employee. We have a nonmember as a secretary for various reasons. Much of it is to cut down on conflicts of interest. Many of the Protestant groups in town have nonmembers as secretaries. However that is the only paid position other than sometimes paying teenagers to babysit at events, but that is rare. It obviously varies from church to church, but almost everything is on a donation or volunteer basis. It isn't just the LDS that do this.
4) Where I live the LDS Institute, the Protestant Center, and the Catholic ministries for students all work together. We leave all the hate and high pressure conversions to the fundamentalist, damn near cultish groups. obviously we don't think that we're 100% correct. We see our common bonds and work together. We're such nice people the Muslim students even kick it with us, and find our events and building a safe welcoming place.