Maybe it's that simple for you. Maybe you never covenanted to build Zion only to have them build a shopping mall with a retractable roof. Maybe their policy on not baptizing the children of gay couples never made any kids you know into second class primary fodder. On top of all of the hypocrisy toward the poor, none of this is fair at all. I completely disagree.
Fairness, equity, justice, Etc., when not implemented to begin with, usually find a way into the equation in distorted ways no one wants. For the French in the 18th century, fairness manifested itself as decapitations. Roman, Ottoman, British, Etc., Etc., all through history. After getting their asses kicked out of the US 170 years ago, the Church has grafted itself into the "American Dream" so completely that they are almost unrecognizable from what they started as. They will share the US's doomed fate as history repeats itself.
May I just comment on your handle. Sure you're a reasonable person with serious moral food for thought, just having fun with "Shock and Awe" verbiage.
But seriously, all this angst about the Mormons...… Mormons historically were a sort of Pilgrim bunch, before they were "Pioneers" settling the West. They picked up on the Christian's early theology of communism... "all things in common", like the Puritan colonists.
They just found it doesn't work, and moved on.
socialists/progressives/communists today live in denial that their dream has failed every time it has found a place to grow.
I credit ADM----Archer Daniels Midland Corp.----- for our diabetes epidemic, following from the massive use of high-fructose corn syrup in food manufacture.
I credit Monsanto for a share in almost every maliaise in modern health for "chemical farming" in our food.
I credit Rockefeller pharmaceuticals(shareholders in almost every pharmaceutical company on the globe, and the related Aldrich chemical enterprise, for modern medicine that fails massively to be effective medicine. millions of old fogeys with prescription trays for daily existence, poisoning their livers. With no end in sight but the grave.
I could go on..... modern corporatism runs our government, runs the UN, gives us Fascism without any corporate newsorganization shaming it all.....
But Marxism isn't the answer. It's the trap that's been set to catch the chumps who care..... it's managed by..... drum roll please...….the corporate elites/bankers.....
whom the Mormons got into bed with a hundred years ago.
tall order, this.... imagining that people can just be their own selves. Try it, though. It's healthy exercise.
And, imagine, after the Brits initiated the drug wars against China..... China has returned the same on us.
Be a rebel. Don't do the ****.