Posted by:
Mother Who Knows
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Date: April 09, 2018 06:32PM
You created that decorated Psalm, because you were inspired! That's why it turned out so great!
Mormonism does not value culture. Their "Cultural Hall" is a basketball court! Art, along with music, dance, plays, poetry, and literature, etc. is even frowned upon. These pursuits don't make money, and don't make good careers for good tithe-payers. They think that the Book of Mormon is not only scripture, but good literature, for heck sake! Temples are "architecture." BOM and basketball and temples. If you're the artistic, creative type, you will not be happy in Mormonism.
I was a BIC Mormon, and the church music used to inspire me--until the head office made a rule that only Mormon-composed music, and Mormon hymns were allowed/ This applied to the sacrament meeting performances, the choir numbers, the organ prelude and postlude, and everything else. I had been the ward and stake organist for years, having studied piano for about 15 years. I also had taught piano and organ. All of a sudden, the cult took away the best music. When I moved away, I no longer played the magnificent German pipe organ, which I had grown to love. Our new Utah ward, with its Mormon-only music, and hymns played slow, and mumbled, like funeral dirges, and the electronic-sounding organ, was uninspiring. The Primary songs were worse, and were all about brainwashing: "I Hope They Call Me on a Mission", "Follow the Prophet", "The Bishop is the Father of Our Ward," "We Are As The Armies of Helaman (at war), and "Primary Children Sang As They Walked and Walked and Walked and Walked...." Tedious!
One day I realized that NOTHING about the Mormon cult was inspiring.