As usual Robert Kirby nails it: "Seriously, it's hard to get people to come and listen about how not to go to hell if you only end up making them feel like they're already there."

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/lifestyle/52844307-80/church-kirby-kid-boring.html.csp

I liked the part about getting home to watch Bonanza. Brought back good memories!

Yep, being LDS was hell.

There was an episode of Bonanza that was about the short-lived Pony Express. A school teacher called the Bishops of the Wards who had Sacrament Meeting during that time (yes, ours was that late) and asked them to let her students leave early to watch it for educational purposes. Ours actually did it. Don't think that would happen now.

Loved that show! One of the few shows I was able to watch. That and Lassie. I was in love with Pernell Roberts.

Dammit...I was going to post this...Here's some intersting tidbits:

"It wasn’t the gospel that was boring.......
It was the delivery. Even as a kid, I had a hard time understanding how anyone could make a story about a virgin birth and a homicidal king boring, but they did."

"Every Sunday afternoon, there I was, screwed into a pew listening to some goof hold forth at length about the precise steps necessary to make the Holy Ghost our friend."

On topic for the order of prayer thread..

"Church became more tolerable as I grew up. Eventually I matured to the point where I stopped fidgeting and started falling asleep."

"Apparently, I’m not the only one who felt this way as a kid. Over the years, church attendance has steadily declined in the United States. Depending on which set of numbers used, fewer than 20 percent of us go to church regularly."

That would be great :)

So is Kirby and active mormon? I've never known.

I always fall asleep in SM and one of the wards lds-waffen SS guys brought it to my attention (like I did not already know I fell asleep) and said I should try to stay awake or get more sleep. I told him it was not a lack of sleep and I could either fall asleep here at church with my family or in front of the TV watching football. He shut-up. I should have said in front of my computer screen watching porn getting ready to bang my wife when she gets home.



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Great article! Thanks!

"As you might expect, the biggest at-risk group is young adults, or people fresh off of having been made to go to church as kids. Now that they have some say in the matter, they aren’t going. And you can’t make them."

I thought this was a problem in only the Mormon church. I love the statement about feeling like you are already in Hell. I would guess that Kirby probably was a Mormon at one point. That, and the Bonanza thing. Every Sunday we had root beer floats and Bonanza at Grandma's. "Hoss" was a Mormon!

In my new church, the speakers are PROFESSIONAL, and they keep our interest by making religion relevant and alive. They don't just read from a manual. They don't talk about second-grade-level nonsense, made up by a perverted con-man. They don't spend time pushing the congregation to go to the temple, pay tithing, do geneology, magnify their callings, and recruit new members, clean the building. No one enjoys a brow-beating like that.

The semi-conscious state is ideal for brainwashing. Those who fall asleep are more susceptible to subliminal persuasion--you'd think the Mormons would encourage sleeping!

At our new church, they serve us coffee--smart!

In the Mojave Desert off I-15. I will say no more.

I believe he was not raised there but only lived there for a short period of time.

Hoss was a Mormon??????????????????

Well, dang it, my day's all shot to poop now.

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No way Dan Blocker was ever a'dunked. More FPR fantasy no doubt.

Remembering Bonanza, they did have a historical slant that was wonderful. I particularly remember an episode about the scientist dude that was first to measure the speed of light.

Way more enLightening than mormy SM.

ROTFLMAO

Iloved the 'Bonanza' episode with the incompetent thieves; during an argument amongst themselves, one says: "Well it was YOUR idea to go to Utah--how can you rob people who don't use money!"

I thought it was funny in 1969...