Why do Mormons think that a person is insulting their religion or persecuting them when the person simply disagrees with LDS doctrine?

Answer 1

It probably depends on how you present it. If you engage in a lively debate, with give and take and an open mind, people are unlikely to be offended. If, however, you get your facts wrong or insult the church, most Mormons will get defensive. Our belief systems encompass our lives, and they matter to us. Insulting everything we believe in is likely to get a negative reaction.

Probably also because Mormons have been taught that they are Christians and that their faith is the only trrue faith and all others are false, so that they do not realize that this is not factually correct. They see this then as an insult when Christians point out to them that they must be Christian in fact before they claim the name. And so, Mormons seem to get offended when simple facts are presented, even the facts of their own teaching and contrasted with what Christians have always believed. Perhaps Mormons need to look at the facts and not assume that persons are persecuting or insulting them. To say that Mormons are not Christian does not necessarily mean they are bad people, just that they give themselves a wrong name. Please note that the above does not imply at all that Mormons are bad people or that people who make this assertion have not met and conversed at length with Mormons or studied Mormon theology in detail.