[greyfoxx39]

This particular comment is very telling of the mormon mindset...."When the family insists that several family members speak in a funeral, we hear about the deceased instead of about the Atonement, the Resurrection, and the comforting promises revealed in the scriptures. Now it’s all right to have a family member speak at a funeral, but if they do, their remarks should be in keeping with the spirit of the meeting."

In my own experience, instead of the Atonement, the Resurrection, and the comforting promises revealed in the scriptures" being spoken of at mormon funerals, the topics spoken of were Joseph Smith, the church, the temple, baptism of the dead and "eternal life". The funeral sermon was used as a proselytizing tool with in many cases, disparaging remarks about those who may be in the audience who were non-mormon and calls for them to "repent and reach exaltation".

In several cases, instead of an event to honor and remember the dead, some listeners walked out steaming at the insulting tenor of the messages while others were in agreement with the messages.

[greyfoxx39]

Ping

[svcw]

Yep.
Reading this is like reading a prison work book: you will do what we tell you - period (oh and it doesn't matter that it's not written down anywhere - just do it)
After all we are the be all and end all - do it or pay the consequences, and we wont tell you what those are but you'll know when it happens.

[ruesrose]

I attended an LDS Sunday service with a mormon relative who had come to visit.
It was a business meeting and there was no sermon to speak of, just church business. No worship at all. Perhaps they get that in a different service. I don’t know. But I do know I did not feel the presence of the Holy Spirt which I have felt in my own church and in some other churches and often in denominations other than my own. A Christian is well aware of the presence of the Holy Spirt in a church that is based on scripture.

[SENTINEL]

"There are many things I could say about such matters as wearing Sunday best. Do you know what “Sunday best” means? It used to be the case. Now we see ever more informal, even slouchy, clothing in our meetings, even in sacrament meeting, that leads to informal and slouchy conduct.

It bothers me to see on a sacrament meeting program that Liz and Bill and Dave will participate. Ought it not be Elizabeth and William and David? It bothers me more to be asked to sustain Buck or Butch or Chuck to the high council. I just say, Can’t we have the full names on that important record? There is a formality, a dignity, that we are losing—and it is at great cost. There is something to what Paul said about doing things “decently and in order"

What a phariseeical crock of crap !

[Colofornian]

From the article: There are many things I could say about such matters as wearing Sunday best. Do you know what “Sunday best” means? It used to be the case. Now we see ever more informal, even slouchy, clothing in our meetings, even in sacrament meeting, that leads to informal and slouchy conduct.

Translation: "Slouchily" dressed folks are NOT welcome at any Mormon worship.

You HAVE to be "worthily" before the Lds gen authorities will even begin to weigh you as "potential gods."

[Not gonna take it anymore]

Wow, my experience at Mormon funerals has not even been close to that.

“When the family insists that several family members speak in a funeral, we hear about the deceased instead of about the Atonement, the Resurrection, and the comforting promises revealed in the scriptures. Now it’s all right to have a family member speak at a funeral, but if they do, their remarks should be in keeping with the spirit of the meeting.”

That is close to what a Catholic funeral is. It’s a Mass.

[Elsie]

The things that I shall tell you are not explained in the scriptures...

This is just about ALL of MORMONism; especially the things modelled after Masonic rituals that take place in the 'temple'.

Good luck at finding THOSE things 'in the scriptures'!