Few Mormons wear crosses, depicting their aversion to it. For more on this, see:
* No-Cross Protocol ["New" Mormon tradition]
* Sunstone speaker attempts to explain LDS 'aversion' to cross [published by Mormon church owned Mormon Times]
Here's a test for Lds to discover their disaffection:
#1. Do you really believe a piece of paper (a temple recommend that pre-Gutenberg believers never had) is what ushers you into the presence of Heavenly Father forever?
#2. Have you been told that "eternal life" is eventual life in the extra-"goody" heaven -- the third heaven -- called the "Celestial Kingdom?" And that it's part of "eternal progression" and that it will take a "while" to reach it? And that it's ONLY available for married Mormons? And that it's ONLY available for temple Mormons?
IOW, have you been told that "eternal life" takes place either at death -- or, for the Mormon, much, much beyond that?
Well, that's a lie. Plain and simple.
How do we know that?
Compare that "line" to what Jesus repeatedly said about "eternal life"...read the passages below and then ask, "Is eternal life something available on this earth BEFORE we die?" The final verse below gives the best brief definitional understanding of eternal life...'tis a relationship with the ONLY TRUE God...a relationship that can start right NOW!
* 36 Whoever believes in the Son HAS eternal life... (Jesus, John 3:36)
* 24 Very truly I tell you, whoever hears my word and believes him who sent me HAS eternal life and will not be judged but HAS CROSSED OVER from death to life. (Jesus, John 5:24)
* 47 Very truly I tell you, the one who believes HAS eternal life. (Jesus, John 6:47)
* 11 And this is the testimony: God HAS GIVEN us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 Whoever HAS the Son HAS life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. 13 I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may KNOW that you HAVE eternal life. (1 John 5:11-13)
3 Now this is eternal life: that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent. (Jesus, John 17:3)
Jesus defines "eternal life" right before our very eyes! It's a relationship. That starts NOW!
Mormons, yield the lies your leaders have told you. Realize how disaffected you have done. Come to the true God....the ONLY ONE...embrace eternal life NOW thru a relationship with the True Christ!!!! Believe!!!
It’s too bad that the millions of Mormons don’t tell their leaders to “go to Kolob,” and reach out to the true Jesus Christ, which they cannot do with the current tons of doctrinal errors that they are swimming in.
IoW, Mormons are attending Christian church services during Holy Week! (And they love the services there!)
To understand this, you have to understand the backdrop -- the vacuum of Jesus and the cross within Mormonism:
1. BYU study: Disconnect between Mormons and Easter
In this article, published by the Mormon church owned Deseret News, it said that Easter has only 'lightly more planning than the Fourth of July,'
2. Preparing for Easter through Holy Week
From this article: While the LDS community does not formally observe Holy Week, the period from Palm Sunday to Easter morning Suddenly I realized that my observance of Easter was rather pale by comparison
3. What is the Significance of Easter for Mormons?
4. Mormons have sub-par Easter services [testimony from a Mormon]
5. Why don't Mormon's celebrate Easter? [Asked by a Mormon]
6. See also: Lent celebrated locally as Easter nears this month [Lent through eyes of Lds journalist]
* No-Cross Protocol ["New" Mormon tradition]
* Sunstone speaker attempts to explain LDS 'aversion' to cross [published by Mormon church owned Mormon Times]
There's also this thread: The Political Surf on Mormons and the cross
According to Michael Reed, an LDS historian at the University of California in Sacramento, the LDS churchs frowning on crosses was part of a movement initiated in the 1950s, under then-President David O. McKay, that sought to emphasize the churchs differences with the Catholic Church. In 1957, McKay declared the cross off limits on jewelry, saying the cross is purely Catholic. Our worship should be in our hearts, McKay said, writes Stack in her article.According to Reeds thesis cited in Stacks article, McKay had been annoyed by Catholic celebrations in Belgium while a mission president. Also, anti-Catholic feelings intensified when church leaders worried a Utah Catholic radio show was designed to win converts from among Latter-day Saints.
According to Stacks article, McKay, pointing at a Catholic church, said in 1953, There are two great anti-Christs in the world: Communism and that church. The late Mormon apostle Bruce R. McConkie, who wrote the book Mormon Doctrine, which is still widely read among LDS faithful, was also an opponent of Catholicism and use of the cross.
In a later edition of Mormon Doctrine, McConkie describes crucifixes and cross adornments as inharmonious with the quiet spirit of worship and reverence that should attend a true Christians remembrance of our Lords suffering and death. McConkie further blames the use of cross adornments and crucifixes on an intermingling of pagan concepts with the true apostolic Christianity.
Why should it?
You've not hit the limit of 'all you can do' yet...