12-15-2015, 04:17 PM | #1 | |
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Dallin H. Oaks on Christmas cards
From his FB page:
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Do we send Christmas cards to our Jewish friends? I just don't get it. I guess I'm not inspired. |
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12-15-2015, 04:23 PM | #2 |
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I don't think Christians should apologize about Christmas.
No more than folks in Turkey ought to apologize about Ramadan. So something like "Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays" should cover everything. |
12-15-2015, 08:51 PM | #3 |
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I like Elder Oaks, but he can be pretty dry. I think he means well. I think all he's really saying is encouraging LDS to think about Christ. For the record, I don't care much about what's on Christmas cards either way. But I will say that the purely secular Christmas songs about things like winter wonderlands and reindeer do nothing for me. But I do really like some of the religious ones.
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12-15-2015, 09:01 PM | #4 |
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Probably better not to know what these guys are like, in terms of personality. The way we carp and judge.
Btw, I don't think one has to have much in the way of personality to do a good job in administration and church leadership. Look at Mitt Romney. |
12-23-2015, 06:25 PM | #5 | |
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A family in my ward did this. They didn't have any gifts for their kids for Christmas. They just did charitable efforts. Maybe this tradition should spread. If you are a Mormon kid, you get no kids for Christmas. :| How could we improve bringing Christ into Christmas? How about a Christmas eve mass? Or a Christmas mass? Sorry we don't do that. That's the time we do Christmas gifts. :| |
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12-23-2015, 06:47 PM | #6 |
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I just feel like there is a big cloud of negativity sitting over the church. Of grumpiness. And dourness.
If for just a second we get a reprieve from that in an Utchdorf talk we sing praises to God. Or when we recollect Gordon B. Hinckley's messages of optimism. "Gays are destroying The Family and all of existence." It's just a message that doesn't resonate with optimism. And many would argue, doesn't resonate with the reality of their day to day experience with gay family members, friends, and colleagues. |
12-23-2015, 07:52 PM | #7 | |
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Here is D.F. Utchdorf's Christmas FB message:
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