An ex-Mormonhas shared her theory of why members of her former church resemble each other.YouTuber Alyssa Grenfell moved from Utah to New York in 2017. Now, she’s using her platform to inform her followers about her days in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints andexplainwhy she “gave up eternal life for coffee.”
In one of her videos, titled “Mormon face is a real thing,” the 31-year-old shared why she believes members of the Mormon Church have a physical resemblance.
An ex-Mormon has shared her theory of why she thinks members of her former church look alike
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The video then shows a photo ofRyan Gosling, with Alyssa writing that the Canadian actor “used to be a Mormon, and people say he has a Mormon face.”
“Mormons really only marry otherMormons,” the YouTuber reasoned. “You can’t marry in a Mormon temple unless it’s two Mormons getting married. This, in large part, has made it so that the gene pool is actually very small — especially in a place like Utah, where Mormons fled and went to Utah to be able to practice polygamy in peace.”
Therefore, thosechurchmembers were only having children with other Mormons “for a very long time.”
Her clip, titled “Mormon face is a real thing,” received 2.5 million views
“The only opportunity to make the gene pool a little larger is to convert people,” Alyssa said.
“Also, Mormons thought interracial marriage was a sin for decades,” an overlay text on the video reads.
“Mormons are taught to proselytize and share their religion,” she continued. “I think that Mormon culture is very copycat.”
“You can’t marry in a Mormon temple unless it’s two Mormons getting married. This, in large part, has made it so that the gene pool is actually very small,” Alyssa said
A 2010 research papermay actually prove Alyssa’s point. Psychology professor Nicholas Rule of Toronto University found that Mormons and non-Mormons alike can identify Mormons based on their appearance—more specifically, their “skin texture.”
Non-Mormons could identify Mormons 60% of the time, and the percentage of Mormons identifying Mormons was slightly higher.
Rule explained that skin texture was the key indicator in distinguishing a Mormon from a non-Mormon, and it was related to a perception of health.
Watch Alyssa’s video below
“The only opportunity to make the gene pool a little larger is to convert people,” the YouTuber explained
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Mormon doctrine advises against the use oftobacco, alcohol,coffee, tea, and drugs.
These factors make Mormons some of the healthiest and longest-living people, according to aUCLA study.
“People make inferences about group membership based on how healthy someone looks, and some see spirituality in that,” Rule explained.
“Perceptions of health were also responsible for differences in perceived spirituality, explaining folk hypotheses that Mormons are distinct because they appear more spiritual than non-Mormons,” the study, published in the Public Library of Science Journal, reads.
“I have to say I like that super friendliness about Mormons,” a social media user commented
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