T. P. has listed a whole bunch of "Jesus" related mormon hymns. How many of them have you actually heard or sung in a mormon service? I see several with similar names to Christian hymns but most of these were not in use when I was mormon.
Admittedly, not all of them. #6, #81, #91, #96, #99, #101, #107, #117, #122, #127, #134, #135, #146, #169, #171, #172, #174, #175, #176, #177, #178, #179, #180, #181, #182, #183, #184, #185, #186, #187, #188, #189, #190, #191, #195, and #196 get sung in Sacrament meeting in my current ward at least once a year. Some more frequently. Of course, from #169-#200 are "Sacrament" hymns, and we sing one of those every Sunday.
The ONLY ones I remember singing EVER when I was LDS are
#6 and #135.
And to be fair Tadpole included songs that really aren’t about Christ, like the couple of sacrament songs or ‘testimony’ (which are more about the individual) or equate Christ with ‘the church’.
Also, there is much more evidence than just the hymns that Smith and ‘the Church’ is the focus of Mormonism, not Christ.
Although we did sing “Come come ye saints”
“Israel, Isreal God is calling” (which I didn’t know was really “What a friend we have in Jesus” at the time),
Praise to the Man,
Spirit of God,
Oh how lovely was the Morning
#19 - We Thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet ,
#11 - What Was Witnessed in the Heavens? ;
#49 - Adam-ondi-Ahman ;
#252 - Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel
#292 - O My Father
and my all time favorite -
#284 - If You Could Hie to Kolob ; those kind of songs alot. And that was pretty much true in ALL my wards both in CA and UT. I still know most of those by heart.
I remember getting yelled at by my RS president for having an Amy Grant cassette in my car because it was ‘Christian rock’. oy vey.
We sing a lot of ‘contempoary’ chrstian songs these days at my church.
Does MORMONism have anything similar in their services?