Mormons: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

When a child grows up getting beaten by his parents every time he is “bad” he grows up with a “things are only black or white” type of mentality and he even begins to develop a loyalty to the ones who abused him; having lost contact with the memory of the beatings yet retaining the painful feelings that those beatings caused.

I see the Mormon people as a race of people who are like a man who got the crap beaten out of him when he was little.

Many American Mormons have a very strange devotion to their country. Some it even seems would put aside their religious beliefs in order to sustain and defend America and they see nothing wrong with this; in fact they see it as being the most honorable thing that they could do. Also, many, many, Mormons feel very strongly that our country should go back to the way it used to be, back when the country had less government involvement.

So my question is why this devotion? Why do they want to go back to the good old days? Why have they so quickly forgotten what happened to them? THEY GOT CHASED OUT OF THE COUNTRY! They were kicked out! And when they were finally a little bit settled, the US government came back and forced them to join them again and made them fight in their wars!

Essentially, the old American government kicked the crap out of the Mormon people when they were young. Yea, old America didn’t have as many taxes but…they used to have human slaves and they murdered Indians and chased them out of their lands. Not very good, in fact; very, very bad! So, is it possible that this early abuse is what has caused many Mormons to have an almost dysfunctional loyalty to America? Are we a race that is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder?

If so, we’ve got some checking ourselves to do. You see, when a child has been battered, he has to somehow revisit the pain of the beatings in their true light and reconnect the painful feelings that he has with the true memories. He has to have knowledge and understanding of what really happened if there is ever to be forgiveness. And forgiveness is a MUST if he is ever going to get better and live a normal life; a life free of drugs and alcohol and other self destructive things.

I don’t think that we’ve forgiven our country for what they did to us. Why else would we go on and on and on and on about the pioneers and all of their hardships. We go on and on about it but never make the connection of it being the fault of the US government. The “Old” government…the one that they all want to go back to so badly.