Mormons are Misunderstood
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A Temple garment (also referred to as garments, or Mormon underwear) is a type of underwear worn by members of some denominations of the Latter Day Saint movement, after they have taken part in the Endowment ceremony. Garments are worn both day and night and are required for any previously endowed adult to enter a church temple. The undergarments are viewed as a symbolic reminder of the sacred covenants made in temple ceremonies, and are viewed as an either symbolic or literal source of protection from the evils of the world.
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Well said Bob Keller.
Seth R. – You have my compliments and my admiration. You have handled yourself with restraint, dignity and intelligence. This can be a tough crowd.
Well, I don’t know about the first couple retorts I made, but thanks.
Being something of an ignoramous on these matters…is it true that A) Mormons do not drink alcohol and B) they can have several wives?
If so they are clearly demented at best.
Being nagged in stereo or worse without the benifit of an alocholic buffer to said nagging…well…you’d just throw yourself of a bridge wouldn’t you?
Depends which “Mormons” you are talking about. There are a lot of different churches out there that trace their start to Joseph Smith and several of them are labeled “Mormon” even though they are quite different.
The largest group is the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (or LDS) based in Salt Lake City. They do call on complete non-use of alcohol as a drink (along with smoking and drug use). They quit doing polygamy over 100 years ago. One wife only.
The Reformed LDS Church split with the LDS Church soon after Joseph Smith’s death. They rejected polygamy from the start and never practiced it. They now call themselves the Community of Christ.
The Fundamentalist LDS Church split with the LDS Church in the early 1900s claiming the LDS Church had lost its way by rejecting polygamy. They still practice polygamy – they were the guys who got raided in Texas recently.
There are also a few other small splinter groups with various beliefs and practices whom I won’t mention. But the above three are the main three factions – and they all reject the legitimacy of the other two. It’s confusing, but make sure not to mix up the different factions.
That’s it. I am throwing away all my thongs and getting some of these. I’m sure hubby will appreciate this more than the frou frou girly things.
Who says Mormons don’t use the other stuff?
Victoria’s Secret does brisk business in Provo Utah (population 80% Mormon).
I don’t think anyone, especially me, said anything about them not using girly, frou frou, frilly drawers. I just said I would get these and throw away my thongs, MY husband may appreciate it. Maybe underneath my heathen exterior I am really an LDS woman, just waiting to jump out at the world in ugly bloomers that will shield me from something. It is like Captain Underpants but not really.
=^..^=
Congratulations. Took you long enough.
People who like to throw crap around shouldn’t whine when some of it comes back their way.
So people who wear magic underwear are not morons?
OK, we get it, Seth – you’re offended. *yawn*
And saying the use of the word “moron” to refer to an entire group of people “wasn’t a joke” is certainly not insulting.
It also apparently insulates us from being dumb enough to think an overused 6th grade insult passes for real argument.
You’re the one doing the insulting Seth R. But I forgive you.
The garments do not protect you from anything within LDS belief.
They are symbols of COVENANTS with God that are supposed to be a protection to you. It’s the covenants, not the clothing that protects in either a moral sense, or perhaps even a physical sense. Basically, it merely boils down to believing in miracles – which is hardly an unusual American view.
Of course, the biggest thing it protects us from is losing enough brain cells to actually find the “moron” joke funny, or becoming deluded enough to think it’s original.
It wasn’t a joke Seth R.
Seth says:
>The garments do not protect you from anything within LDS belief.
Don’t lie, Seth. Defend the church, but don’t lie. Straight from the Mormon temple Ceremony Script:
>You have had a Garment placed upon you, which you were informed represents the garment given to Adam and Eve when he was they were found naked in the garden of Eden, and which is called the “Garment of the Holy Priesthood.” This you were instructed to wear throughout your life. You were informed that it will be a shield and a protection to you inasmuch as you do not defile it and if you are true and faithful to your covenants.
Which is exactly what I said measure. Notice the focus on the covenants in that language? Or did you miss that part?
The way it reads, seth is, “if you are true and faith ful to your covenants, then the garments will be a shield and a protection.”
So yeah, there’s a bit about covenants, but a faithful mormon would believe here that if he’s faithful, the garments WILL be a shield AND a protection.
Measure, walk into just about any LDS Gospel Doctrine class in the US and ask them if it’s the fabric that shields them or the covenants the fabric represents and see what answer you get.
Just about every last one of them will tell you it’s the covenants.
It’s been years and I’m old, I think I remember something abut a Hat. The founder saw something in his hat in the finger lake region of New York. That’s the region known for it’s wine. Coincidence?
Even if this is not true, it’s a good story and I’m sticking to it. LOL With all that wine it was probably a rabbit, Ha!
I thought they called it “magic underwear”. First time I heard it, thought it was a joke. Like wearing “bodacious boxers” or maybe athletes with “jubilee jockstraps”.
They also think Indians are some lost tribe of Israel. Must be that Postum crap they drink, drinking that stuff is a sign something ain’t right.
Although Marie Osmond is fine, been in love with her for years.