Erik Allebest, the founder and CEO of chess.com, and co-founder Jay Severson, are active long time members of the lds church, generally known as mormons (but also other members of the executive management, like Bryce Heinz, chess.com CFO and Shaun McCoy, chess.com CSO). The lds church has dedicated a site to honor their great mormon sons, Erik & Jay, and the success of their site chess.com:
www.mormonwiki.com/Chess.com
I watched during the last days the mormon drama „Under the Banner of Heaven“ starring an excellent Sam Worthington. In this drama a mormon fundamentalist, son of one the most prominent mormon families in Utah, kills the wife and the 17months old baby of his brother, because the wife did not tolerate anymore violence in the marriage, wanted to leave the lds church and „The Holy Spirit told him to do so“. Though the series plays in the 80s, there is enough evidence that up to now a lot of mormons reject gay people and other races (don’t be fooled by the fact that chess.com said they support „black lives matter“, it’s a commercial decision, they fear consequences if they don’t). Most mormons think that women should above all serve well their husbands, not so little male lds church members still think that polygamy is okay and marital violence is still more common among mormons than in the general population:
www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-young-rob-porter-mormon_n_5a844a06e4b0cf06752087ae
www.thecut.com/2018/02/rob-porter-abuse-mormon-church-assault.html
The founder of the mormonism, Joseph Smith, had 33 wives, the youngest of whom were 12 and 14 years old. He said that polygamy should be obligatory for every mormon man. And lds church members still believe not only in God but also in Joseph Smith.
All members of the lds church – no matter if they want or not - are forced to give at least 10 % of their income to the church. The richer, the higher the percentage (chess.com is now considered to be worth around 500 Mio $, says mormonwiki)
I didn‘t know much about mormons before I watched „Under The Banner of Heaven“. Then I started to check. And after that I cancelled now my chess.com membership because I really don‘t want to indirectly participate in the wealth of a church with such views. Yes, religion is basically everyone’s private matter but only as long as the religion does not promote an aura that treat women as second class citizens, or tolerates marital violence, homophobia and racism. Especially when the specific religion forces their members in financing it and my payment contributes to that.
www.mormonwiki.com/Chess.com
I watched during the last days the mormon drama „Under the Banner of Heaven“ starring an excellent Sam Worthington. In this drama a mormon fundamentalist, son of one the most prominent mormon families in Utah, kills the wife and the 17months old baby of his brother, because the wife did not tolerate anymore violence in the marriage, wanted to leave the lds church and „The Holy Spirit told him to do so“. Though the series plays in the 80s, there is enough evidence that up to now a lot of mormons reject gay people and other races (don’t be fooled by the fact that chess.com said they support „black lives matter“, it’s a commercial decision, they fear consequences if they don’t). Most mormons think that women should above all serve well their husbands, not so little male lds church members still think that polygamy is okay and marital violence is still more common among mormons than in the general population:
www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-young-rob-porter-mormon_n_5a844a06e4b0cf06752087ae
www.thecut.com/2018/02/rob-porter-abuse-mormon-church-assault.html
The founder of the mormonism, Joseph Smith, had 33 wives, the youngest of whom were 12 and 14 years old. He said that polygamy should be obligatory for every mormon man. And lds church members still believe not only in God but also in Joseph Smith.
All members of the lds church – no matter if they want or not - are forced to give at least 10 % of their income to the church. The richer, the higher the percentage (chess.com is now considered to be worth around 500 Mio $, says mormonwiki)
I didn‘t know much about mormons before I watched „Under The Banner of Heaven“. Then I started to check. And after that I cancelled now my chess.com membership because I really don‘t want to indirectly participate in the wealth of a church with such views. Yes, religion is basically everyone’s private matter but only as long as the religion does not promote an aura that treat women as second class citizens, or tolerates marital violence, homophobia and racism. Especially when the specific religion forces their members in financing it and my payment contributes to that.
