'Too lazy' to be LDS
Get the missionaries to Hollywood — stat.Katherine Heigl, Knocked Up star, has fallen away from her Mormon beliefs. Her reasons are completely understandable: "It's hard to get yourself up on a Sunday morning."
The actress' family converted to LDS after the death of her older brother, Jason, when Heigl was 7 years old.
Heigl says she has abandoned the family's strict LDS faith because she just doesn't have enough time to devote herself to it:
"I still love the theology of the Mormon religion and I think it is a wonderful way to grow up. But I think any real commitment to religion takes time, effort and energy. I just got really lazy and it's hard to get yourself up on a Sunday morning."The "Grey's Anatomy" star married musician Josh Kelley at the Stein Eriksen Lodge in Deer Valley last December.
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You state Heigl has "fallen away" from her Mormon beliefs.
Would you also state someone has "fallen away" from believing in Santa Claus?
Would you also state that after WWII, many former Nazis "fell away" from their belief in Hitler?
Why not say "Heigl no longer believes"? When many open minded people, including many, many returned missionaries, leave the Mormon Church, they realize they no longer believe the Mormon Church to be what it claims.
Anytime one reads the SL Tribune, many Mormons tell people expressing their doubts or disbelief in their dogma as:
- "Anti-Mormon Bigots"
- "Keep your comments to yourself"
- "Flame away Antis"
It's this mentality and regurgitated cliches like "fallen away" that make many people who were once Mormons cringe and laugh. Can we have intelligent and substantiated conversation without the need for name calling and the use of negative cliches?
Not everyone who decides not practice the LDS religion does so because they think it's wrong. As a matter of fact, most of the people I know who don't go to church, do so for the same reasons listed here: It's a lot of work.
It's hard to get yourself up on Sunday morning.
As far as those who do choose to vigorously campaign against the church's beliefs, I don't go out of my way to find Catholics, Methodist, Jehovah's witnesses, Buddists or Muslims and tell them that their leaders were deceitful, lying scoundrels, so I appreciate it when people give me the same courtesy
It is just too damn much work. And for what?
Think about how busy some of them are going to be when they have a couple hundred spirit wives to service, as well as a whole planet to run.
Seriously though, if it was just about rousting oneself out of bed of a Sunday morning, that would be one thing. But an active LDS person has some kind of obligation every day of the week except Saturday, which is the day "we get ready for Sunday."
Sure it’s hard to drag your a$$ out of bed on a Sunday morning, but isn’t that true of all religions? Except maybe if you’re 7th Day Adventist, a Jew or Muslim (in fact, it’s harder being a Muslim because you must leave your bed before sunrise every day to grovel before the grim Allah). I think that was a rather unfortunate turn of phrase used by the lovely Katherine. Mormons reading her comments will smugly say, “Tsk, tsk. See how spiritually lazy she is? We endure 3 hours of mind-numbing religious drivel every Sunday, provide free labor to the church, give them 10% of our gross earnings -- all with a rigid smile permanently affixed to our faces! Is that too much to ask?” Apparently, Ms. Heigl thinks so.
I suspect Katherine simply doesn’t want to offend any family members who remain in the LDS church while coyly suggesting that she is a naughty girl. And just look at her in that dress. No Mormon underwear for that beauty!
~~CobiCapri
Flame away antis. :)
I love when people think leaving the LDS Church makes them an intellectual (Not Heigl - I'm talking about the previous comments). That's always good for a laugh.
At March 20, 2008 9:29 AM , Anonymous said...
"I love when people think leaving the LDS Church makes them an intellectual (Not Heigl - I'm talking about the previous comments). That's always good for a laugh."
Where in ANY of the previous comments did someone say that leaving the LDS Church makes them an intellectual?
You won't find it, because noone said that. Jeez, my good little sheep, you are deluded into reading about things that don't exist.
Even as an atheist exmormon, I can say: Thank GAWD!!! Ms Heigl thinks her faith to difficult!! -- We would have missed those lovely (sacred, but not secret) shoulders if she had bought into the whole "protective" underwear dogma of her faith. I'm glad the geezer in their spacious building have made it so difficult to live. Now if I could just get my mormon family off their anti-depressants for trying to hard to live the lie.
She doesn't owe anyone an explanation and those who judge her are probably the ones who are taught NOT TO PASS JUDGEMENT. Peace be with you!
Somehow, I believe "Sister Heigl", will have the feelings and doctrine her missionaries taught her family, present themselves to her at a time most likely to provide her comfort and guidance. She is a great person and actress. Best wishes, Katherine, Mark W.
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