Whereas Christianity brings all it's basic core beliefs straight to the table to those interested, groups like JW and Mormons and cults like Scientology [[no wait, they aren't a religion-that would turn off potential converts, but wait again, they are a "religion" as far as taxation and the U.S. government is concerned-?!?) keep all potential proselytes in the dark about many things and push this feeling that they have to earn more and more gradually-imparted [[conditioned) "deeper"
esoteric [[God forbid anyone get caught up in any group or club that operates in a manner that says you have to elevate to greater plateaus of enlightenment to be "free", honestly.) "revelations".
The Mormons teach that "the words of a new prophet supersede the words of an old prophet". That is their escape clause to rearrange any doctrine to best suit them at the time to fit their needs. Thus, there is no consistency [[Proverbs 24 "Beware those given to change"-in the radically unstable and inconsistent sense.). If they had an attitude that non-whites could never elevate up in ranks within the LDS up until the climate of the mid-50's changed, so they changed; it got altered by "new words" and to their hopes, swept under the rug never to be brought up again. Most Mormons act really ignorant if you bring this fact up to them. I look at their diet [[highest mortality rate, mostly from colon cancer from all that supporting of cattle country livestock) and their doctrine, and I can't help but think of Hebrews 13:9 and the analogy made between food and doctrine and how it applies to them [[By similar formula, Reddit has a funny one about Proverbs and LBJ-
https://m.reddit.com/r/Christianity/...e_predict_lbj/ but how much was that dog-eared incident-one I caught long ago- conveniently contrived?).
By far, the most clueless of fringe "Christian" [[that is to say, non) faiths are the JW, for they are left in the dark most. Part of this is how they are told not to question [[well, so much for being like an inquisitive child or asking/seeking to receive/find), fostering anti-intellectualism [[well, so much for being cunning as serpents with girded up loins of the mind) by stealing their liberties on every aspect
http://thejehovahswitnesses.org/thin...es-cant-do.php. One of the ways they burden members in their vast pyramided network is having each member have to seek approval for each and every important and personal aspect of their life [[What jobs they take, who they can court-even most Mennonite/Amish communities are not that strict.). So, delving into church background is a no-no.
It's bad enough that you got a church that plagiarizes "art" from skin mags
http://www.nairaland.com/1498593/wat...arism-hardcorefor it's contrived paste-up propaganda, but while they rail on their members to avoid pagan symbols like "flags" or "Christmas trees", they don't know their founder was a huge pyram-idiot.
http://makesureministries.com/pastor...lls-tombstone/