This is how Mormon apostle David A. Bednar views himself.

Your Power is Your Own

In the Mormon church, the bishop is the leader of a congregation, and members tend to revere the bishop just like they revere any other leader. While perhaps not placing them on a pedestal as high as the upper church leaders and church president, they still view the bishop as the representative of God among the ward, or congregation.

They also tend to believe the bishop has supernatural spiritual powers above those of the other ward members. This tends to lead people to be nervous around the bishop, or it leads them to think the bishop has some sort of special insight that he doesn’t actually have.

Temple Grift

The Mormon church has turned one of the elements it preaches is the most sacred, its temples, into a grift and most members don’t even realize it.

It’s quite simple really. The Mormon church teaches the members in order to attain complete salvation and exaltation, they have to go to the temple. However, in order to gain access to the temple, you have to be what the church calls a full tithe payer.

The Wobbly Word of Wisdom

The Word of Wisdom, the Mormon health code which dictates what a member can and can’t eat and drink, is an interesting thing.

The Word of Wisdom was created by Joseph Smith in the 1800s during a time when many various Victorian health trends were popular, but that’s a topic for another post. In this post, the focus will be on the modern implementation of this Mormon doctrine.

Essentially, it’s because of the Word of Wisdom that Mormons avoid drinking coffee and tea. They treat the avoidance of both substances equally and partaking in either is enough of an infraction that doing so will prevent a member from being able to go to the Mormon temple.