Do Mormons sing songs/hymns as part of their worship? what kind?

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• thanks Mr IT! I found it!

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  by dea_ex_machina on August 31st, 2009

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• oh.. thanks!

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  by dea_ex_machina on August 31st, 2009

• I'd want to say "most" but I'm not sure so I'll say "some" of the hymns they have are Christian hymns that are hacked to pieces to fit their doctrine.

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  by Martureo on October 13th, 2009

• ahhhh... that is a little unfair to the writers of the original hymn

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  by dea_ex_machina on October 13th, 2009

• Yep, for example, all mentions of the Trinity have been stricken.

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  by Martureo on October 14th, 2009

• really? wow.. what have the references been replaced with?

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  by dea_ex_machina on October 14th, 2009

• Yep, they believe the Trinity is logically impossible and thus a doctrine made up in the 2nd century by a group of old church guys.
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  The references haven't been replaced usually, just the whole verse deleted from the page.

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  by Martureo on October 14th, 2009

• but but but.. Saint Patrick was rather taken by it! does that mean they do not celebrateSt Patrick's day??????

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  by dea_ex_machina on October 14th, 2009

• They celebrate it but only in a very limited way, like April Fool's.
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  This is one of the main reasons many consider (including me) that Mormonism is not Christian. They claim the Trinity to be "doctrine of men" and they worship a "godhead" made of up of three separate deities of the Father (Elohim), Christ (Jehovah the God of the OT) and the Holy Ghost (not the Holy Spirit). They also believe that Christ was a procreated child of "Heavenly Father" and "Heavenly Mother," that he and Lucifer were brothers and that every person on earth was a "spirit child." These among other things (including that God was once a man like us on a planet near Kolob) make them non Christian polytheists.
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  It's amazing as to why they are so accepted with these heretical beliefs. But really not everyone knows. :(

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  by Martureo on October 14th, 2009

• I never knew! Thanks for the insight!
  To be honest, I never considered it a christian religion - but i never really understood why.

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  by dea_ex_machina on October 14th, 2009

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• shame about the rock and roll...
  
  but at least you have Cecil Frances Alexander - she wrote "there is a green hill" in the city of derry..
  http://www.lds.org/cm/acomposersearchalpha/1,18279,4783-1-1,00.html

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  by dea_ex_machina on August 31st, 2009

• Rock and roll is limited to dances, not in our Sunday School or Sacrament Meeting.

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  by laie_techie on August 31st, 2009

• that is a shame - there are such great expressions of faith which have been written to a more modern beat

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  by dea_ex_machina on August 31st, 2009

• I remember only back in the 70's they were very boring and dry hymns. Usually the younger deacons would write in the books during the singing..
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  attending a non-denominational church was VERY upbeat and much more loving.

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  by EmptyWallet on October 13th, 2009

• Did you dock a point because you think our hymns are dry and boring?

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  by laie_techie on October 13th, 2009

• was a point docked? I missed that

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  by dea_ex_machina on October 14th, 2009

• Someone down rated this answer at the same time you posted the comment about our hymns being dry and boring.

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  by laie_techie on October 15th, 2009

• oh, that was not me, who posted about them being dry and boring

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  by dea_ex_machina on October 16th, 2009

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