As an investigator I was once taught that there was no picture of Jesus Christ in the room where the sacrament meeting was held each sunday. Anybody know the reason for this? Is Jesus not welcome there? The only one I know who could give such an order is satan himself. Now, even blacks can receive priesthood. But Jesus is still not worthy.

As you get into the LDS club a little more you'll find that Mormons worship Joeseph Smith. They might claim to believe in Jesus. But they worship Joe Smith.

and sometimes that becomes VERY obvious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wALvdgurB4

Jesus Smith. LOL.

To be fair, they don't have any pictures in the chapels... they are lifeless boring rooms that make you feel like you are in a bunker.

I was sometimes in the chapel located in Lahti, Finland,

http://www.alltravels.com/finland/paijanne-tavastia/lahti/photos/current-photo-58733531

and there is a picture if Jesus hanging outside the rooms in the hallway, but there in none inside the sacrament meeting room or any other rooms.



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I was once told that the reason for the chapels having nothing on the walls was to keep people from being distracted. You'll notice that the only thing on the wall is a clock. I could never stop staring at that thing.

Once again, along comes the internet. A distraction they haven't been able to control.

Those clocks were always a big distraction for me. Every time I always went I couldn't stop thinking how every church have the clocks that have an upside down 2 for a 7. I went there recently for a baby blessing and thought of it again.



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How many sacrament meetings do I recall staring at the clock and
passing the time (while some High Council speaker droned on)
calculating what fraction of the meeting was left . . . 1/15 . .
. 1/20 . . . 1/30 . . . etc.

I got good at fractions.

I haven't been to church in a VERY long time. I must have stared at that clock a LOT because I remember it better than the clock that is in my house right now.

This is one of those moments when someone points out a detail about church that seems strange now but was normal at the time.

+1 Muwahahaha... Candy Crush in Sacrament! Oh what's that? Yeah, the LDS Gospel app is great... *snickers*

And in the end, it's all so much bullshit. In earlier, more opulent LDS churches, there was often a stained glass window of Jesus. Or also of Joseph Smith, which was probably more likely. (I used to go to an LDS church in Midvale that had a sunken chapel with a huge stained glass window behind the choir seats featuring Smith's "First Vision." I notice now that the church has been sold off and has a gold dome on top.)

I think Mormon churches are made as cookie cutter and sterile looking as possible so that they don't compete with the temple.

The church might not get members to pay ten percent of their income to attend the temple if Mormon churches actually looked like a place of worship.

We used to have a very large picture hanging up "Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane" . Then suddenly in my late teens it was taken out/down and hung in one of the hallways.

I was never told why. I don't know if the adults were told or not why this was taking place. We didn't have statues or even crucifixes but just a picture.

Also they used to have trophy cases in the lobby, but I guess too many investigators thought they were walking into a gym than a chapel.

Best to keep the clutter to a minimum, I say. Who wants the "sexy Jesus" paintings. Lot's of my realtives have the manly sun tanned Nordic Jesus with the long blond highlights smilin' at them in the living room (Oh Baby!!). It has to be placed next to the "Bless out lil Family" montage of ugly babies and pictures of temples and cowboy hats. Sorry if I offended anyone but it's tacky.

For many years the Washington Temple lacked Bibles.

The image of Jesus is suppose to be the one the spirit gives you not and artist image. That is what I was told.

The chapel I went to while growing up had a plaster bronzed sculptured relief of the last supper crafted by a local artist. It filled the wall above the choir seats and was beautiful. The chapel was razed and another built in it's place in the 70's. The artwork was destroyed, the church said they had no place to store it, which I still don't believe. It was a great artwork simply run over by a bulldozer during demolition. The old chapels had a lot more beauty to them, the new ones are uninspiring.

The chapels look like bank offices.