05-15-2008, 06:35 PM | #21 | |
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You can pretty much do what you wqnt in an LDS funeral. I have seen many funerals that are not at all like the HOI description. You must be one of those rare wealthy pseudo-intellectuals to have that free-spending attitude.
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screw that... I've been paying my monthly dues my whole life. I'm sure as hell not going to pay to use a funeral home.
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05-15-2008, 06:57 PM | #23 |
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I haven't been to a funeral where a person's life was not discussed.
I will say about giving on a talk on the gospel....I went to a funeral, and one of the speakers, who happened to work for CES, gave a talk that was much overwrought, in a General Authority voice, that I found very lacking in tone and tenor to the occasion. My father felt the same way. So yes, there are distasteful ways to talk about the plan of salvation in a talk at a funeral I discovered. |
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In spite of our lay clergy I doubt any other church is run like a big business as well. Other may be in it solely for the money but nobody does it as well. Every ward is like a franchise.
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05-15-2008, 07:05 PM | #25 |
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I am pressured much more about home teaching than I am tithing.
Where is the public display of giving to the church, such as a collection plate? If the church were about collecting money, they could do a much better job using shame. |
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The shame part is tithing settlement
Members don't want to be required to look the Bishop in the face and say that they aren't full tithe payers. Tithing settlement does a very good job of collecting money. If you don't sign up, you'll get a call from the executive secretary to make sure everyone is accounted for.
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In fact, for a couple of years, I was a FTP and I didn't attend. Additionally it is never made public who attended and who didn't. |
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Truth be told, I much preferred a funeral anywhere other than the mortuary. It's a lot less work for the funeral directors.
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Then they should pay or not go. At least have the courage of your actions. The bishop never asks how much you pay, he only asks if you are a full tithe payer, part tithe payer or non. There is no shame at all. In my life I have gone to many settlements,sometimes I was paying and sometimes I wasn't and I always told the Bishop the truth and have never felt unduly pressured. into paying. In fact, the only discomfort I have felt was when I told him I was a non-payor and I knew inside this was not consistent with my true feelings. No shame, no pressure no discomfort and nothign public like the collection plate.
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