{"id":2379,"date":"2010-07-19T09:33:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T16:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/?p=2379"},"modified":"2010-07-19T09:33:17","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T16:33:17","slug":"why-are-mormon-church-meetings-so-dull-flunking-sainthood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourthoughts.ca\/2010\/07\/19\/why-are-mormon-church-meetings-so-dull-flunking-sainthood\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Are Mormon Church Meetings So Dull? &#8211; Flunking Sainthood"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>A couple of years ago I read the memoir\u00c2\u00a0<a><em>Sundays in America <\/em><\/a>by\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beacon.org\/contributorinfo.cfm?ContribID=1221\">Suzanne Strempek Shea<\/a>, a Massachusetts novelist. The author&#8217;s project was to attend a different religious service every weekend and write about her initial impressions.<\/p>\n<p>I felt that it was unfair to judge a faith tradition based on a single snapshot, when so much of religious life happens during the other days of the week. That said, what Shea concluded about Mormonism was spot on: the only thing non-Mormons needed to fear about Mormonism was that Mormons would bore the world&#8217;s population to death.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it takes an outsider to make us realize the truth about ourselves. This author nailed the fact that our sacrament meetings are beyond dull; they are stultifying. She certainly had no desire to return. And really, who could blame her?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/flunkingsainthood\/2010\/07\/five-reasons-why-mormon-church-meetings-are-the-dullest-youll-find-anywhere.html\">Why Are Mormon Church Meetings So Dull? &#8211; Flunking Sainthood<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I read the memoir\u00c2\u00a0Sundays in America by\u00c2\u00a0Suzanne Strempek Shea, a Massachusetts novelist. 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