Why Are Mormon Church Meetings So Dull? - BeliefNet.com

[_Spider-to-the-Fly]

To The Mormon Report,

Why are Mormon Church meetings so dull? Why that is because they are preparing you for eternity, 24/7, in the Celestial Kingdom. A religion professor at BYU said one day in a class I was attending eons ago, if you do not like church meetings and home teaching, then you will not much like the Celestial Kingdom, where these activities go on all day long.

Maybe when JSJr said that if the common man could glimpse the Telestial Kingdom he would kill himself to get there (and that's where suicide victims go), he was really try to explain why you would not want to go to the Celestial Kingdom. Perhaps the Telestial Kingdom is not so tedious and boring.

Regards,

Spider.

[_Runtu]

One thing that needs to be mentioned is that Mormon culture tends to associate the Spirit with quiet, somber, serious tones (with or without tears). So speakers and instructors, in an effort to invite the Spirit, tend to speak in quiet, somber, serious tones (think Richard Scott). A sacrament meeting consisting of 50 minutes of sober talks broken up only by the silence of the sacrament is bound to produce zoning out and boredom, not so much the Spirit.

[_Sethbag]

I think the reason Mormon church meetings are so dull is that the church is now led by 15 guys who got where they are by promoting the status quo, and since they now do so much of their work by consensus, there's a fairly low probability that anyone with a spark of creativity or desire to change things up will be able to make it happen.

Mormonism is rapidly turning into "religion by committee", and everyone knows the stereotype about anything "by committee" and what that means.

[_MCB]

got where they are by promoting the status quo, and since they now do so much of their work by consensus, there's a fairly low probability that anyone with a spark of creativity or desire to change things up will be able to make it happen.

Sort of like the school psychologists' office in that un-named town. LOL

[_The Mormon Report]

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Episode 73: Why Mormon Church Meetings are so Dull - MormonExpression.com

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