Would it be considered rude if you don't go to their funeral because you refuse to enter a Mormon church?
2007-07-20 19:58:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
OH, sorry I didn't make this clear. I personally have no problem entering the Mormon Church. The real issue is that I hate my parents.
2007-07-20 20:12:07 · update #1
it might be depending on your family. Can you make it to the grave side?
2007-07-21 10:42:23 · answer #1 · answered by Dionysus 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It should be considered more rude to hold a non mormons funeral in a mormon church. Someone very dear to me died a few years ago (they were atheist) and because the people coordinating the funeral were mormon, the funeral was held in a mormon church. That made me really angry
2007-07-21 03:04:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Which is more important to you: honoring your parent's memory or not going into a church building? Personally, I would take the opportunity to share memories of your time spent with that person and to say goodbye. Even though you have bad feelings about the Mormon church, it would be sad if you missed out on an important rite of passage.
2007-07-21 03:08:10 · answer #3 · answered by Rikki 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would be sad. This is your chance to say good bye and also show support of your other parent and sibling (if you have any). You will not be killed or maimed or harmed for entering an LDS church for a funeral. You won't be force to rejoin or made to make any covenants. It is a funeral for your mother or father and it is held their because it was their religion.
Would you miss the funeral if it was held in another church you don't believe in? I hope not for you will be the one missing out, not your deceased parent.
2007-07-21 03:11:15 · answer #4 · answered by idaho gal 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not so much rude as pathetic. If you can't put your hurt feelings aside (the only reason I can think of that a person would refuse to enter a building) for an hour to honor a deceased parent then I say you love yourself more than them
2007-07-21 03:02:42 · answer #5 · answered by Ethan M 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's obvious from your two recent questions that either you were raised Mormon and converted away from it or you were raised Christian and one or both of your parents converted to Mormon. It solves nothing to be angry, whichever the case. Perhaps you should sit down and talk to them and find out how you can come to some acceptance of each other.
2007-07-21 03:14:32 · answer #6 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If one is an ex-Mormon (or maybe they call you a jack-Mormon), one might have trepidations about going into their so-called "church"; but as a Christian, I *might* go to my First Cousin's funeral, if he dies before I do. (I'm afraid he's probably still following their false teachings.)
But to honor one's parents, if he/she died a Mormon, one should go; just to say goodbye and, if one is a Christian, to pray to the *real* God that he or she got saved before death!
2007-07-21 03:24:02 · answer #7 · answered by trebor namyl hcaeb 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Awww.. I don't know if you have children or not, but if you do, just imagine that one of your children says that he/she hates you, how would you feel, it would be terrible for you, wouldn't it? don't you think that if your parents read this they'd be heartbroken and anyways will not stop loving you even thought you said you hate them.
2007-07-21 16:58:14 · answer #8 · answered by Love Yahoo!!! wannabe a princess 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Rude" is in the eye of the beholder. That is, some people may consider it rude, and some may not.
2007-07-21 03:00:12 · answer #9 · answered by drshorty 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋