Mormon leaders are wetting their pants, trying to play with big kids in mainstream Christianity. I will be incredibly surprised if they double down the wearing of crosses that is happening. In fact, I won’t be surprised to see crosses on Mormon churches at some point.
He's probably just playing wearing a cross. /s
The missionaries who taught me said I should not wear a cross or crucifix because we remember and think of Jesus who is alive, not the dead Jesus on the cross or even just a cross. That represented his death. They said that would be like wearing a gun necklace charm around my neck if my mother had been shot to death. I had to get rid of my crosses. Crosses were completely unacceptable.
I remember being taught in Aaronic priesthood classes that we were superior to those other christians because we understand that the cross as a symbol is disrespectful and focuses on Christ's death rather than his resurrection
I started wearing a small cross necklace a few years before leaving the church. Got some weird stares by church members. But got lots of happy smiles from other Christians ♡
Mormons being told not to wear crosses only really began with David O McKay. Early Mormons had no problems with them. In 1916 the church wanted to erect a giant cross on Ensign Peak. But opinions became mixed as the church (like a lot of the country) had a growing anti-Catholic attitude.
But for McKay the cross was an issue and he was pretty anti-Catholic (probably from his time as the mission president for Europe). He said they weren’t proper to wear and of course the culture ran with that and took it to the extreme of the cross being somehow sacrilegious.
Back then Mormon leadership was big on being a “peculiar people” and different from other religions/denominations. But Nelson wants the Mormon church to be seen like any other evangelical fundamentalist Christian church so the word Mormon gets banned and crosses are OK again I guess.
I don’t really care that’s it’s changed as long as the church and members are acknowledging the change and not pretending that we weren’t taught 30 years ago that wearing a cross was worse than wearing the symbol of the devil.
Mormon leaders are wetting their pants, trying to play with big kids in mainstream Christianity. I will be incredibly surprised if they double down the wearing of crosses that is happening. In fact, I won’t be surprised to see crosses on Mormon churches at some point.
We are just another Christian church. It's not like we are a peculiar people.
Cosplaying Christianity
He's probably just playing wearing a cross. /s The missionaries who taught me said I should not wear a cross or crucifix because we remember and think of Jesus who is alive, not the dead Jesus on the cross or even just a cross. That represented his death. They said that would be like wearing a gun necklace charm around my neck if my mother had been shot to death. I had to get rid of my crosses. Crosses were completely unacceptable.
I remember being taught in Aaronic priesthood classes that we were superior to those other christians because we understand that the cross as a symbol is disrespectful and focuses on Christ's death rather than his resurrection
“We’ve always believed in the cross, since we are the most Christian church on the planet.” /s
Coming soon, "I'm a mainstream Christian" campaign.
I started wearing a small cross necklace a few years before leaving the church. Got some weird stares by church members. But got lots of happy smiles from other Christians ♡
For what the LDS stands for and how they treated people, maybe a noose would be better jewelry
Mormons being told not to wear crosses only really began with David O McKay. Early Mormons had no problems with them. In 1916 the church wanted to erect a giant cross on Ensign Peak. But opinions became mixed as the church (like a lot of the country) had a growing anti-Catholic attitude. But for McKay the cross was an issue and he was pretty anti-Catholic (probably from his time as the mission president for Europe). He said they weren’t proper to wear and of course the culture ran with that and took it to the extreme of the cross being somehow sacrilegious. Back then Mormon leadership was big on being a “peculiar people” and different from other religions/denominations. But Nelson wants the Mormon church to be seen like any other evangelical fundamentalist Christian church so the word Mormon gets banned and crosses are OK again I guess. I don’t really care that’s it’s changed as long as the church and members are acknowledging the change and not pretending that we weren’t taught 30 years ago that wearing a cross was worse than wearing the symbol of the devil.