Posted by:
kolobian
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Date: May 04, 2016 10:03AM
This has been the most interesting question I've found that I can ask people who tell me they were at some church event, especially mormons.
I generally get two types of response:
1. They tell me some simple teaching that everybody knows, so I challenge them to confirm they didn't already have that information. They always reply that they did. That leads to a semi-productive conversation about whether they've actually learned anything new about their religion since they were children. They never do.
2. They completely ignore the question and talk about how much they enjoy the fellowship, to which I reply it sounds like they don't have a very good circle of friends if they need to go to some organization to find fellowship. That always goes over like a fart in a spacesuit.
I was reminded of this by the other thread on Home Teaching in which a poster talked about how bored their BIL was and ultimately made their exit.
Sometimes it's good to remind our religious friends that they know very well they're not getting anything substantive out of their religion. They just talk about the same old things over and over and over again.
That's what I think the appeal of mormonism was for the early saints. There was actually some new shit to talk about after hundreds and hundreds of years of the same old doctrine.
Since mormons haven't had any new revelation since the early 1800s, I think they're starting to get bored again. Not a bad thing to continue to remind them of...