Posted by:
smorg
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Date: April 16, 2012 01:09PM
It didn't seem rude to me. Like the others say, you'd expect the people who invited you to church to sit with you. :o)
There were plenty other things about the Mormon church services that bugged me, tho. I blogged about it (
http://smorgzone.blogspot.com/2011/10/mormon-encounter-part-3-going-to-mormon.html ). I guess if you were born into Mormon culture it wouldn't seem weird to you, but if you have been to other sorts of church... the atmosphere is really not uplifting.
I found the seating of church leaders on the stage behind the podium pretty oppressive, especially since unlike the Christian church leaders who sometimes also turn up on the stage, the Mormon ones seem intent on having the serious face on the whole time. I made the mistake of waving to the bishop when he looked over. The guy kept his poker face on the whole time, but was friendly once the meeting was over and they came filing down the stage into the main sanctuary. :oP And the tacit omerta code of silence feels especially unnatural... In fact, the whole thing felt unnatural... like everyone was stuffed in this invisible strait-jacket of properness or something. It didn't help that everyone kept repeating how important 'obedience' was...
The missionaries kept trying to get me to go to their church on Sundays. I couldn't seem to get them to understand that their church creeps me out...