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The Nazi analogy is overwrought, incendiary and just plain inaccurate. If you can't understand the logical disconnect between the two... :shock:
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01-18-2006, 01:46 AM | #33 |
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How many of you have an employer who imposes a dress code? Or attended a school that had a dress code? Or have gone to public events with a dress code? It is not an uncommon thing.
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Don't you think its a little bit different? I mean I don't work for the bishop do I? Doing church service is voluntary isn't it? Just curious what is a public event that has a dress code? (black tie affair?).
I will be honest the only reason there is this policy is that they want their people to conform. If I had to manage a large sum of people I would want them to all act and dress the same as well. It makes it easier to administrate. I don't mean that in a negative way its just and efficient way to run things. Additionally, if one of your main goals of the church is missionary work then wanting your body of people to be as conservative as possible makes it easier to fulfill your goal Look, all this crap about it being a sign of purity or "the uniform of the priesthood" is complete hogwash. We already have a dress code and it comes when you take your endowments out. what you put over the top of them when you go church shouldn't matter.
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True going to church is voluntary. But how many people get this upset when their spouse tells them to change their shirt or put on some pants.
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I think the real question that needs to be posed for this issue is why? Why are you choosing to not wear a white shirt?
It seems to me (and I frequently am a non white shirt wearer) that many of us are probably numbered among those who don't want someone else telling us what to do...and this is especially a difficult task within the walls of the church... For example: On my mission I always had an issue with the whole Junior/Senior companion idea, same with DL, ZL, and so on...I just didn't like the idea that in a voluntary church organization (such as the missionary program) certain people would be chosen as leaders and others would not be and thus, the Senior comp tells the junior comp what to do and so on it goes right down the line. I find that most people, while respecting their bishop's authority, sometimes question his competency to do his job. This is not a blanket assumption of course, but I've talked to enough people about their local leaders to know that some are unimpressed and in some ways uninspired by their bishop. The only reason I bring this up is...if the bishop, whom you consider a bit of a ninny, tells you to wear a white shirt, then of course you won't...because if you think he's stupid, his little personal do's and dont's aren't going to mean a hill of beans to you. IMO and in my experience, the wearing of white shirts has become more of an act of defiance than an act of good fashion.
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I thought I could start wearing colored shirts, I was called to be the Ex. Sec. I changed to white and held that calling for awhile and after I was released, I kept wearing white. After about a year or so, I slipped in a few colored shirts again and wham, I was put into the High Priest group leadership. I am back in white and after a couple of years I am released and so now I wear my white shirt every week and the only calling I have is to home teach. I will keep wearing the white shirt so I don't stick out for some other calling they need filled.
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