Given that it’s Sunday, and I’m sitting at home in sweatpants after having just woken up while the rest of the family got dolled up and went to church, Robert Kirby’s latest column seems appropriate (click the link for the full article, it’s short and entertaining):
Two weeks ago, a kid got up in church and announced to the ward, “I’d like to bear my tithing.”
He meant to say, of course, that he would like to bear his testimony. But it’s such a small LDS gospel distinction that nobody bothered to call him on it. …
…I think it’s a bit disingenuous to push kids to say they know something when they don’t. It’s OK to encourage them toward public gratitude and the like, but I wonder about the efficacy of insisting that a kid be truthful everywhere but in church.
If you’re going to fib in church, I think you should wait until at least you know what you’re doing.