LDS callings: we've got it backwards
Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2021 1:27 pm
I was ruminating on the weirdness of how callings work in the church. The church tells you what calling you are going to do, and then they proceed to attach a bunch of conditions to it. (You're going to teach church history but don't you dare mention polygamy, that sort of thing.) They aren't paying us, they don't hold anything over us other than imaginary "blessings" that you have to be dead to receive. And we all accept this as totally normal.
Outside the church, when someone asks you to do *them* a favor, who dictates the conditions of that favor? That's right - the person being asked, not the person asking.
It's like when they are in RS begging us to feed the missionaries. Give these kids free food (says the church while sitting on $100B), and it can only be between 5 and 5:45, and MOST importantly my husband has to be home to prevent me from sexually assaulting teenage boys less than half my age.
Outside the church, when someone asks you to do *them* a favor, who dictates the conditions of that favor? That's right - the person being asked, not the person asking.
It's like when they are in RS begging us to feed the missionaries. Give these kids free food (says the church while sitting on $100B), and it can only be between 5 and 5:45, and MOST importantly my husband has to be home to prevent me from sexually assaulting teenage boys less than half my age.