https://www.lds.org/new-era/2006/06/a-sense-of-the-sacred?lang=eng

It's not enough that you attend mormon church on Sunday, but you also need to also fit someone else's standard of appropriate attire, otherwise they can't feel the spirit.

Some apostles are even stating that keeping the sabbath day holy involves attending all your church meetings, wearing the appropriate clothing, being on time, and remaining in you church clothes all day Sunday.

Constrast this to other churches, which are simply happy to see you in their building on Sunday.

The mormon church simply wants to control every aspect of your life.

Did any of you feel less holy wearing flip flops or sandals to church on Sunday? *rolls-eyes*

I always wore flip flops and made it a point to wear them after they cracked down on it. Even when we moved to a place where it snowed regularly I donned my flip flops. I was making a point and am sure that is why I always ended up teaching in primary.

...means you were still being controlled by what the church wanted.

Isn't there some scripture along the lines that people see each other from the outside, but God can see our hearts? (Or some such thing ...)

Obviously God can't see your heart unless you're wearing a white shirt and sensible shoes. What? You think God's supposed to be omnipotent or something???

What I wore to church when I was 15 was got me out of being there. Micromini dress...platforms. Hey it was the 70's.
My dad told me I didn't have to go anymore.

Funny after the flip flops conference, I did notice the footware of the sheep walking to church here change.

What an arrogant ass. Who does he think he is, knowing the mind of God, who is apparently so small minded he is 'offended' by the sight of someone attending a sacrament meeting in flip flops?

All the things in the world a loving god might be offended by, it's too casual dress which needs to be addressed. Still I expect that goes with a god who get all bent out of shape by too many earrings.

He's really petty isn't he?

The Big Boyz just sit around and recycle old topics. Guess we have to shame 'em about their wardrobe and sabbath. Next week is about "little factories". Geez, let people think for themselves already.

I've said this before, but I have to laugh when mormons are so proud they have a living prophet. And when God speaks to his prophet, what's the most important thing on God's mind? The dress code!!! Don't wear sandals to church; wear your garments when you do yard work.

Seriously??? The economy has been in the crapper for years, people are getting slaughtered in Syria, etc., etc. And God's worrying about what people are wearing?????

The God of mormonism reminds me of the little old lady who lives in the neighborhood and spends her days sitting at her front window spying on everyone with her binoculars.

God needs to get a life!

+1

But image is everything!

1 Peter 3:3 "And let NOT your adornment be merely external-- braiding the hair, and wearing gold jewelry, or putting on dresses; 4 but let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the imperishable quality of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is precious in the sight of God. 5 For in this way in former times the holy women also, who hoped in God, used to adorn themselves, being submissive to their own husbands."

if there ever was a 'jesus' I doubt he'd be welcome in a morg chapel, nowadays.


back in the 70's.... I'd been baptized for a couple of weeks.... I was told that shouldn't wear trainers to church (pretty much my only footwear at the time)
next time I went, I made sure to wear my funeral shoes (that one pair at the back of the closet that only comes out for weddings and funerals)

Not the Warner Bros. ties worn by the deacons passing the sacrament.

There is a nonspecific-denomination fundie church down the street from my house. I was walking my dog with my pole dance instructor -- who is also a stripper -- past this church one night. We were checking out the shoes of all the ladies who were walking into church for their Wednesday evening service. Our observations were: "Why are all these girls dressing like they are going to the club, to go to church? Did you see that girl's shoes? They would be awesome for pole! Who wears stripper shoes to CHURCH?"

Apparently, a lot of people do.

I figured that a lot of women figure a better place to meet guys than bars is in church, so they go to church as their meat-market. So the hooker heels come out and the tight little skirts and dresses come out, but it's all good because god is love and god loves stripper heels.

Or something.

I have trouble getting past my shock that people get to choose how to dress for church. I'm stunned when people tell me they're allowed to go to church in jeans. JEANS! I suspect I could be religious if I was Episcopalian or something.

The Episcopal Church welcomes you! Seriously, I've seen my share of jeans and killer shoes over the years. Nobody really cares as long as you're there. We built a new church a few years ago and before we moved, the air conditioning in the old one was on its last legs. The lectors and chalice bearers regularly wore cutoffs or shorts under the heavy, black gabardine cassocks topped with a cotta (white overlay). This is Florida and it got to the point when I served I wore shorts, but I never got so bold as stripping to the undies like some women did. The only way I restrict myself is to make sure the shoes I wear don't squeak or clunk on the hardwood flooring at the altar.

@DogZ They day YOU go to church they need to burn the place to the ground! LOL.

I can see it now: The church of the flaming stripper heels.

OMG.

LOL

I'll sit quietly and demurely in the pew, modestly dressed except for the 6" platform stillettos with the plastic fish floating around inside the clear platforms. I'll lean over to the poor person I chose to sit next to and whisper conspiratorially, "You might want to scootch over a bit. If you sit too close to me, you could get hit by some of the lightning." And then I'll give 'em a big wink.



That oughta be good for a laugh. ;>)

The end result of wearing casual clothes to church: ""they will come to despise God, and then they will despise themselves" !!!

And I like how he judged the other denomination that met in the same building. Oh, how much better the Mormons were!

I believe you're referring to 1 Samuel 16:7.
also see 2 Corinthians 4:18.

'of course' those don't apply/are a Mystery to THE SAINTS...

While leaders may give lip service to the fact that it is what is inside that is most important what they really teach is just the opposite.

Short illustration.

Years ago our bishop could not believe that our high school son was into drugs . . . . wait for it . . . . "...because he always so well-groomed."

My old minister didn't care what I wore inside his church, just as long as I was there.

When I left the LDS church and he heard about it, he made a point to say that again.

Looking back on the whole thing, he tried to warn me about the ways of the LDS church.

Going to church in Hawaii was my favorite, flip flops and colored shirts and nice people! to bad Mormondum never caught the drift.

It isn't about God. It's about image for the corporation. They throw in "thus sayeth the Lord"s when it is convenient to do so and suits their own ends.

What's weird is, just last night I was looking at some pictures of my friend's daughter's wedding on FB and all the bridesmaids were wearing flip flops. I realized that several of the Mormon wedding receptions I've been to in the last year have had their bridesmaids in flip flops. This may just be where I live but is that a new trend? Don't wear flip flops to church but have them in your wedding?

I also remember right about the time I got married, a Stake Council guy gave a talk in Sacrament Meeting in my single's ward, reeming the Single Adults about the pictures in the wedding announcements. He said when announcing that they were going to take out sacred ordinances in the temple of the Lord, people should be dressed appropriately for the solemness of the occasion. He talked about how he was appalled that people dressed casually in these photos - girls wore pants and boys weren't dressed in a tie and white shirt, appropriately for sacrament meeting. This was before the flip flop announcement but I'm sure he would have been horrified by those too.

People usually wear suits or shirts with ties and the women dresses, but some women wear pants and some men no suit or ties and nobody makes a stink about it. The Bishop has an extra tie in his office if someone wants to perform the sacrament.
Members often bring non-member friends who dont dress up.

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Agreed - definitely a different culture than in Utah. It varies from ward to ward anywhere though. My sister lives about 1/2 an hour away from me and her bishop lets a boy who has shoulder length hair pass the sacrament. I was surprised when I saw this because Bishop Jackwagon would NEVER let a kid with an improper haircut be involved in the sacrament. My sister said that her bishop decided it was more important to keep this kid involved than to be picky about appearances.

My SIL lives half an hour away from me in the other direction and her bishop is the one grilling my nephew about masturbation. Bishop Jackwagon, despite his many failings, never gets that personal in a youth interview - he only asks if people are keeping the law of chastity. Not only is it a serious problem that the church has nothing better to do than nit-pick it's members, it's equally appalling that each bishop has such a wide latitude in how much nit-picking they do.

Once when I was a teacher I was told I couldn’t pass the sacrament because I had a non-white shirt. Yet the first counselor’s son was allowed to pass even though he’d been smoking pot the night before.
It’s all about the image.

Mormons should take a look at what people wear to the Catholic church in Santa Cruz, CA. THey'd have a stroke.

I always wear a black shirt with my black pants when I go to a farewell, homecoming, or baby blessing. I look good in it. I feel like Johnny Cash.

I always wear flip-flops (weather permitting) to sac. meeting that I attend for my wife's sake. My nice A&F leather ones. I always say "If they were good enough for Jesus, they're good enough for me!" I also call them "Jesus sne.akers."

Here's a joke I thought of while still active -- "What kind of shoes did Jesus wear on his way up to Gethsemene? Cross-trainers."



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"Our temples and meetinghouses are dedicated to the Lord as sacred space."

"As immodest dress dishonors the body—God’s most sacred creation—immodest, casual, or sloppy dress and grooming at sacred times and places mocks the sacredness of the Lord’s house and what is taking place."

So....if the meetinghouse is sacred (apparently on par with the temple), why is it an open place of worship and why is he talking about it?

If the body is God's most sacred creation, why do so many mormons treat their bodies so badly? I used to work at the hospital in Provo, and I'd laugh at all the mormons who came in for open heart surgery - morbidly obese, high blood pressure, diabetic, etc., etc. By but dern they'd obeyed the word of wisdon their whole lives - not a drop of coffee or alcohol!

If mormons treated their meeting houses the same way the took care of themselves, the roofs would be leaking, walls caving in, rats running everywhere, rotting garbage in the corners ...

I've felt alot more spiritual wile skyclad than wile keeping to all those mormie rules.

i have never worn mormon underwear, but when i think of all the underwear people wear to church. i go to church without underwear. i love it. always panty free at church!!!!