Mormonism produces sluggishness. No spines/ backbones do it too. The former produces the later.
It's the appearance, after all, they are after. "Emblems" are for show... and what a boring, shiFty (no) show it is... fool of commercials!
Put them all in unicorns/ uniforms and the appearance of evil goes away. DI over GQ. GQ (general quotent) over personality. Strip them of their individuality and they'll stay in their boxes.
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They can have their read WHITE and blue shirts - and their assumptions that color, and size, and judgement matters.
They want pretenders (for their pretend 'faith'). They can't make a man white but hope to persuade some to wear a white shirt, in the hopes it will make them feel better [more uncomfortable].
...that the Democrats are going to run Al Franken and Jill Stein for president and VP in 2020? It will be the Franken/Stein ticket. That will be MONSTER!
Men's fashions are all about dominance, power, prestige and authority. Mormons want people to think they have the ticket to wealth and success. They don't of course -- but that's the image they want to project.
Any non-white shirt males will be mailed a ticket to lick it - and stick it! Up (you know where)! In their overwear. 'This is a good place for a stickup'!
Mormonism has no taste, or tact, or morals… not to mention morale.
I have always been intrigued by the white shirt phenomenon. I never read or heard from a general authority that it was a requirement.
I was serving as a counselor to a young bishop who was a "dress for success" oriented individual. He liked colored shirts and ties were optional. Then a new bishop was called and I was asked to continue as a counselor. The new bishop was adamant we wear white shirts and dark ties. To everything.
When a missionary I heard a sacrament meeting talk by an older missionary who was serving as branch president. The whole talk was about the use of the "right hand".
Finally, I had a bishop that was a stickler on the sacrament prayer - it had to be letter perfect. He made the priest's repeat it so many times to get it just right that it became quite a distraction.
I thought it was all rather ridiculous. Maybe that was what led me out of the Church?
Fascinating read and research paper. Merci for posting.
I particularly enjoyed the ending sentence of the research paper after the paper presented a history of mores involved in the LDS Church's observance of the Lord's Supper, or the passing of the Sacrament.
It reads:
"Instead, leaders called on deacons only to be neat, clean, and "appear manly" for the sacrament." - cited from Progress of the Church". (January, l941)
Now I am curious if this admonition of "appearing manly" continues to be taught in these same words to the youth?
The MormonCult, if good for anything, is often good for a hearty laugh!
The term "manly" has changed meaning over the years. A couple of generations ago, during an era of strictly defined gender roles, it meant a standup-guy who did his societal duty. Now it tends to mean "overflowing with testosterone."