Saints Ascending

Working With a Mean Red Headed Dwarf In a ditch...covered in dirt...I looked up to the top of the trench at my foreman. Though technically a man he looked to me like the dwarf warrior Gimli from Lord of the rings...only wearing orange street construction clothes. He would stand above me on top of the large hole dug by a backhoe so he could swear and say foul things because he knew I found it offensive and it made me uncomfortable. He knew I actually possessed standards of morality driven by my religious views and he saw it as his mission in life to bring me down into the mud with his pigs. He told me "we're going to have you swearing, drinking, and be just like us!!"  On this day he interrupted my shoveling to ask me about how much money I give to the church. I told him about how I gave 10% of my check as tithing and he shook his head in shock and disgust as if I told him I burn a portion of my money I earn. I told him how the money I give goes to church buildings...templ...

People are upset. Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who have been as active as active gets...many their whole lives are now wondering if they've somehow placed their ladder of faith up against the wrong wall. These are not to be confused with those of weak faith and devotion that long have looked for an excuse to hang up their religion hat to spend more time worshipping at the altar of the NFL and other such probation wasting pursuits. The type that desire to live unrestrained from cultural and religious confines that would prevent their natural man from "taking the wheel". Those that have no depth of earth that dry up when the sun comes up. To assume that ALL people who are now questioning the soundness of where they've placed their faith as a club for the "weakest among us" would be all too wrong. Upon thoughtful examination one finds that with so many if you knew them from the beginning " that after the most straitest sect o...