My Favorite Thing About Mormonism

[_just me]

That is not an LDS hymn.

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The Mormon TABERNACLE CHOIR is very Mormon, bb. :P

[_LDSToronto]

That is not an LDS hymn.

H.

The Mormon TABERNACLE CHOIR is very Mormon, bb. :P

MoTab also sings The Messiah and that doesn't make Handel an LDS composer. Now, if you'd said "If You Could Hie to Kolob", now I'd agree with you. Or, "O Say What Is Truth". Now those are Mormon hymns!

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[_LDSToronto]

What is your favorite thing about Mormonism?

Battlestar Galactica.

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[_Jason Bourne]

Battlestar Galactica.

H.

YEA!


Others:

Strong sense of community and support along with a strong sense of identity.

Emphasis on serving.

Leadership skills I gained as a missionary and in other callings.

Man is co-eternal with God.

Becoming like God

Doctrine of atonement of Christ.

[_Blixa]

Blixa reminding me of stuff that is long gone reminded me of road shows. Every year, our stake would have a giant road show and film festival competition.

Roadshows and Relief Society independence were effects of correlation, If I recall correctly.

I never participated in a road show because the ones our ward did were usually quite lame (I remember one whose theme was how kids today are rotten). Relief Society bazaars, though, were great!

Rambo, these were Relief Society fundraisers from back in the day when the Relief Society had control over its own budget. The Relief Society would sell handmade and homemade items like baked goods, quilts, hooked and crocheted rugs, embroidery, crocheted doilies, etc. What I liked most about them, though, was that there was lots of fun things for kids to do: lots of games with prizes. These were pretty old fashioned and again, homemade: things like bean bag tosses with big faces made out of cardboard and cloth. There was always a "fishing pond" which was a bit more expensive (like a quarter instead of a dime) and so had better prizes (plastic toys from the five and dime, as opposed to a cookie). A sheet was set up between two poles and painted to look like a pond with waves and fishes drawn on it, and numbered stick-and-string fishing poles draped over it. You paid, picked a pole, and pulled up your prize! Sometimes the attendant would tell the sisters behind the sheet who had what number pole, so the prize you got was gender specific, or maybe even tied to something you were known to like: I got a lot of little plastic horses, for example.

There was always a big "white elephant" table, too. Again, nickle, dime and quarter prices. Lots of bits of old ceramic stuff: figurines and vases. When I was a kid I sometimes got Christmas presents for my mom and grandmothers here.

They were really fun for kids and the Relief Society ladies...

[_MsJack]

The idea of modern-day prophets, apostles, and continuing revelation.

[_LDSToronto]

The idea of modern-day prophets, apostles, and continuing revelation.

Yes, the *idea*.....

[_honorentheos]

LDS music, including "pop worship" music such as Janice and Steven Kapp Perry songs, are guilty pleasures. Steven Kapp Perry's multi-part acapella numbers are amazing, in my opinion.

But my real favorite thing about Mormonism? The idea that Runtu expressed and it's extension to the family. I know the reality of LDS worship falls far short of this idea, but the concept of eternal family (including God's family) and the patriarchal nature of priesthood has "deep roots" of a sort that you don't find in many other places. There is something permanent and lasting in the idea that transcends much of the impermanence and shallowness that makes up the majority of modern culture.

[_Blixa]

But my real favorite thing about Mormonism? The idea that Runtu expressed and it's extension to the family. I know the reality of LDS worship falls far short of this idea, but the concept of eternal family (including God's family) and the patriarchal nature of priesthood has "deep roots" of a sort that you don't find in many other places. There is something permanent and lasting in the idea that transcends much of the impermanence and shallowness that makes up the majority of modern culture.

I can tentatively agree, honor. But I have to say I never really saw this in its best form among "chapel Mormons." Then there's the "patriarchal nature" of the beast. I can wish it away as a historical product, but its continuation is the bridge between this and its sister thread.

[_keithb]

The three degrees of glory and the concept of eternal progression.

Not that I believe it's true, mind you. It's just a far superior concept to the traditional christian hell of eternal torment and burning.

Absolutely.

The idea invented by Joseph Smith really is FAR better than the traditional Christian doctrine; although, it is still problematic and unfair on many levels.