Posted on 04/04/2010 4:02:57 PM PDT by Colofornian
SALT LAKE CITY — For 5-year-old Ezra Hyde, it works just fine that Jesus delivers the candy eggs instead of the Easter Bunny.
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...Keith Wilson, an associate professor of ancient scripture at Brigham Young University...surveyed approximately 500 people in six different LDS wards as well as scores of BYU students...
"It's almost completely usurped by general conference..." The two-day event...happens to fall on Easter weekend this year, as it does about 23 percent of the time.
"...in LDS remembrance, (the conference) totally overshadows Easter."
Wilson said...Latter-day Saints could overcome both the general conference timing and the holiday's moves around the calendar with wider acknowledgement of...holy week. "My students did a little poll this year...only 2 to 3 percent of their wards even mentioned Palm Sunday. It's like we're afraid that's another Christian fabrication of mainstream Christianity and we don't want to buy into it."
His survey respondents ranked...Easter a distant third behind Christmas and Thanksgiving, with only "slightly more planning than the Fourth of July," he said.
"The Thanksgiving celebration is much more intense for LDS families...It's kind of an awkward juxtaposition...there's this disconnect with the LDS observance of it."
"Look what we do to prepare for Christmas: caroling, ward parties, advent calendars that help you count down to the holiday," Wilson said. "For most Latter-day Saints, we have nothing like that for Easter, yet it rightfully should be the celebration of all celebrations."
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He reported..."fewer than half read the Easter story at home or knew when Easter was this calendar year. Only one in six discussed or reviewed the events of the Passion week. Only one in 19 discussed the Triumphal Entry. These participants sent a consistent message from their candid answers: ...Easter among the Latter-day Saints receives little attention beyond a regular Sunday worship service."
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(Excerpt) Read more at deseretnews.com ...
As far as I can tell, the majority of Christians don’t attach much more religious significance to Easter than they do Thanksgiving.
Um, you guys are on the same side...
Well, in attendance of corporate worship...you're wrong on that alone...I mean, even inactive church members usually worship!...(I mean that's why the nominal members are sometimes described as 'C-E' 'Christians' -- Christmas-Easter).
Mormons are terrific people.
That article is, however, assinine and divisive, while also demonstrative of LDS views of Christians and that pretend thingy Christianity.
“Um, you guys are on the same side.”
I was just clarifying. As I said, mormons are generally good people but I don’t consider them Christians.
No..sorry, I should have stated more clearly...the 24th of July was the date the first mormons who crossed the plains and mountains reached the Valley of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.
“As far as I can tell, the majority of Christians don’t attach much more religious significance to Easter than they do Thanksgiving.”
The 2500 people in each of my church’s service today would beg to differ.
Seriously? that is an uninformed opinion or plain idiotic.
It is the holiest of days as is the week.
I’[d say it’s out of this world in space...
Easter is here on earth...
The mormon mindset is on Kolob...
Kolob, Nana ???
Yeah that’s in the space of Joey Smith’s mind...
Dumb anti-Christian idiot...
ooops!
The only LDS folk I have little patience for are the enablers, those who are profiting from the deception, who know it is a con but work so hard at defending their scam.
“The only LDS folk I have little patience for are the enablers”
Pretty much the same as with Scientologist although they take it to a new level.
I find it interested that the Mormons are so blatant about ignoring Easter. Perhaps the leaders are afraid their members might actually learn what Easter really means.
When ever I see an article posted here that might make Mormon’s look bad in any way possible I know there is a high possiblity it’s going to be posted by Colofornian.
At least you are consistent.
Is this your life’s mission?
Well same thing I guess ... a non-event as far as we’re concerned.
#1...Hey, I usually utilize Mormon sources...
usually talking about themselves...in this case...the thread source is the Lds Church-owned Des News...(Now why do you think Lds would publish an article about themselves to make themselves "look bad in any way possible"???)
In this way I give a fair & balanced treatment...Lds get to air their voice (instead of keeping it tucked away in Utah)...
...and posters like myself get to essentially write "letters to the editors" as "commentary" upon these articles...
#2 The 52,000 Lds missionaries around the world use the doorbells, porches, and living rooms for their 70-hour work weeks. In some communities, they knock on doors that are 70-75% "Christian" and proceed to label them as "apostates" in need of a "restoration."
Me? There's no electronic doorbells on these posts...nobody has to respond. And juggling a handful of e-threads on a given week -- vs. what 52,000 Lds missionaries produce every week...sorry, no comparison.
“When ever I see an article posted here that might make Mormon’s look bad in any way possible I know there is a high possiblity it’s going to be posted by Colofornian.
At least you are consistent.
Is this your life’s mission?”
Do you have any thoughts on the article, or just on the poster?
HMmmm...
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