Why Are So Many Mormons Devil Worshippers?

Latter-day Saints—Mormons—members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—have been accused through the years of belonging to a cult, being non-Christian, being fanatics. They’ve even been accused of being devil worshippers. I used to laugh at such claims, but now I see there might be some merit to this last one.
My husband, a former Mormon, absolutely does not believe in God. Any god. But he won’t watch The Exorcist or other movies about devils, demons, or possession. Because part of him does still believe in the existence of the Devil.
A former missionary companion—who threatened to break my fingers—told me that when he was a child, one of his friends heard that Mormons were devils. So my companion glued two rose thorns to his scalp just above his forehead and then pulled back his hair to reveal his “true self.” His friend ran away screaming.
Mormons pride themselves on being nice, smiling for the cameras, keeping up their yards and the exterior of their homes. I’ve heard non-Mormons say how impressed they are that Mormons “take care of their own.”
But it’s not quite true. Mormons don’t pay the medical bills of their members and they vote against universal healthcare. They don’t pay their impoverished members’ rent and they vote against Universal Basic Income and housing as a right.
Mormons believe that family is the most important social organization in the world and they vote for politicians who separate families at the border. They believe families are eternal and kick out LGBTQ members from their family and their church.
My brother-in-law, a rare Mormon Democrat, insists he accepts his gay son and his son’s partner. But when the young men were finally able to marry legally and invited my brother-in-law to the ceremony, he said he was too busy to attend. He lived twenty minutes away.
One of my former missionary colleagues actually giggled as he called Greta Thunberg “that little mentally ill girl.” Even if he disagrees with her politics, even if she is on the spectrum, is his remark one that a follower of Christ would make?
This isn’t all new or recent behavior that’s just developed in the years since so many Mormons have converted to MAGA. In the 1970s and 1980s, gay students at Brigham Young University were coerced into electroshock torture “for their own good.”
In the 1980s, one of my friends in the elders’ quorum, with a huge smile on his face, declared during Priesthood meeting, “I hope they don’t find a cure for AIDS until all the gays are dead.”
We’re all familiar with the Sermon on the Mount where Jesus says, “Blessed are those who gleefully wish others dead, for theirs is the highest degree of the Celestial Kingdom.”
This doesn’t describe all Mormons, of course, but it’s enough that their collective vote still supports the Anti-Christ, if there is such a thing.
Latter-day Saints may not like being accused of Devil worship. They’ve denied Joseph Smith’s polygamy, too. And their continued polygamy even after the 1890 manifesto. They deny the death threats from the pre-1990 temple ceremony. They deny Blood Atonement—murder—and many other well-documented aspects of their history and doctrine.
Isn’t the Devil the Prince of Lies?
But Mormons insist they’re following God. They even have a Prophet to ensure a direct line of communication.
And yet the Supreme Being they follow not only tells them to break up families at the border and to ban healthcare, it also tells them to pay workers less, to shut down libraries, to ban books, to cut off breakfast and lunch for schoolchildren. It tells them to cut funding for veterans and the elderly and for education at all levels.
This Supreme Being they follow tells them to suppress votes and restrict free speech and put more people in prison than any other country on the planet. Most Mormons in the U.S. worship a Being who wants them to pollute the air we breathe and the water we drink, to destabilize the climate so more of our towns burn to the ground or are washed away in floods. This Being tells them to abandon allies, to threaten and bully friends. It tells them to praise dictators here and abroad.
Most importantly, the supernatural Being these Mormons follow tells them to gloat about every bit of it.
Can anyone really believe this is a god they’re worshipping rather than the Devil?
At a certain point, one has to look at their actions, not their supposed doctrine. By their fruits ye shall know them.
Mormons don’t believe in Hell. They believe in Outer Darkness.
But it’s their collective inner darkness that is destroying us all.