I learned in church today

[LA Ute]

So, according to my wife, who was just dumbfounded, in Relief Society she learned that men are called to be bishop because women are jealous, catty, and would be too emotional about other people's problems. No one challenged the teacher's assertion.

I hope that was because everyone was too shocked and too embarrassed for the teacher.

Heck, if anyone wants to experience jealous, catty and emotional men, all they have to do is hang around on this board for a day or two.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Heck, if anyone wants to experience jealous, catty and emotional men, all they have to do is hanging around on this board for a day or two.

[Viking]

That is awesome!

That looks like a member of my family.

[DU Ute]

So, according to my wife, who was just dumbfounded, in Relief Society she learned that men are called to be bishop because women are jealous, catty, and would be too emotional about other people's problems. No one challenged the teacher's assertion.

You'd think in a group of catty, emotional women someone would get upset about this.

[Viking]

I've got this one covered, folks. Mormon Jesus:

Doctorcoug = Mormon Jesus

[New Mexican Disaster]

I learned today from one of the 12 year olds in my class that "beards are not reverent," and that is the reason that a student should not have a beard at an institution named after a person famous for his beard.

[cougjunkie]

That with a teething baby you are better off staying home.

[Jarid in Cedar]

That with a teething baby you are better off staying home.

Yeah, that definitely sucks. Hopefully sleep is in the realm of possibilities during the next few nights.

[Surfah]

I learned that I better get used to sitting in the foyer for the next 5 months until my baby can go to nursery.

[Sleeping in EQ]

I learned that "intellectuals are posessed of the spirit of anti-Christ."

[RC Vikings]

I learned that I better get used to sitting in the foyer for the next 5 months until my baby can go to nursery.

Home would be much more comfortable for yourself and the kid.

[pellegrino]

I learned that "intellectuals are posessed of the spirit of anti-Christ."

please tell me you didn't let that go unchallenged.

[Sleeping in EQ]

please tell me you didn't let that go unchallenged.

I challenged it, and am now on the #%#! list of the first counselor in the Bishopric (who said it).

[pellegrino]

I challenged it, and am now on the #%#! list of the first counselor in the Bishopric (who said it).

I see he's studied bkp well then. I'd love to have been present for that exchange. Please, elaborate, if you feel so inclined.

[Sleeping in EQ]

I see he's studied bkp well then. I'd love to have been present for that exchange. Please, elaborate, if you feel so inclined.

The lesson was on the parables of Jesus. Matthew 13 was the reading. The teacher suggested--in ignorance--that Jesus' method of teaching was anti-intellectual--and the counselor took up the refrain.

I suggested that Jesus met people on their own terms--that he knew how to teach the experts in the law, children, outcasts, women, the rank-and-file Jew.

I was admonished not to "take offense." It wasn't, of course, an issue of me taking offense, it was an issue of him being an asshole and a cultural bias that is fed by both political and religious streams.

Being "the other" in your own church sucks.