Priesthood Power Trip?

A little background: I’ve been an investigator recently. Not with any intention of joining (as I’m well aware of all the closet skeletons and firmly believe that Joe was a power-grubbing , predatory fraud), but because I developed a “train wreck I can’t look away from” fascination with Mormonism and have been using it as a comparison point for my (very negative) experience with Islam. As such, I’ve been consistently challenging the missionaries and everyone they’ve called in, in the most polite ways I can muster.

They called in the bishop on our last meeting. It was supposedly to give his “testimony”… and it was really 20 minutes of him yelling at and berating me for refusing to just get a dunk date already. I’d been consistently seeing the missionaries (not at my own address) for 3 months at that point and I was getting ready to cut the cord anyway. Still, he insisted that I should have a testimony by that point and I was just dragging my feet and wasting everyone’s time by continually insisting that I didn’t believe in God, let alone the LDS Church. He was also very incensed at my continued comparisons between Mormonism and Islam, even though I think the similarities are more than apparent.

He seemed to think that he had power over me by virtue of being male and a bishop. He seemed to think he could cow me into submission and accepting a dunk date for a few weeks later. I told him in no uncertain terms that he had as much authority over me as the Pope had over him. I was not a member of his church and therefore did not recognize his authority, so I would not feel obliged to do a damn thing he said. He informed me that I’d said something about “The Prophet”(TM) that vexed some members, seemingly to guilt trip me into backpedaling on it (I didn’t) and then attempted to defend the practice of demanding tithes regardless of financial situation (which I’d called him on).

I have to ask: is this sort of power trip common? It seemed to me that he was drunk on the power of both the priesthood and the bishopric, such that he thought he could bully me (a female non-member) into submission, only to get a very rude awakening when that backfired. Is this common, in your experience?