As with most if not all religions, including the Roman Catholicism I was raised in, including the followers of Benny Hinn and all the evangelicals, the individual members can be the most wonderful, honest, upright people in the world. The institutions can have some superb practices.

And the parent organization is rotten to the core.

Jehovah's Witnesses, Amish and Mormons have a particularly heinous practice, though. That is shunning of people, including mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters who leave the faith. Devastating. Although Jehovah's Witnesses and Amish are honest about it, the Mormons practice it but deny it's advocated by the church.

Please make no mistake - Mormons as individuals tend to be honest, upright and moral at a level the rest of us can only admire.