Sunday TV – why not?

Everybody here watches Sunday TV…

Let everyone love and respect God on Sundays in any way that feels right to them. Remember Jesus and his disciples walked too far, healed people, picked and ate corn, and did many things on the Sabbath that drove the pharisees mad.

I agree that it should feel different, it should be a better day.

extra rules for Sunday. Not sure whether they still do these, but maybe. No TV, no newspaper, no homework, no physical activity of any sort, and they stay in their church clothes all day

That right there is way to get kids to dislike Sunday. My husbands family had to wear church clothes all Sunday. Interestingly enough when all the kids left home, that is the one rule they all very vocally got rid of.

I have been a bit saddened at the amount of meetings our area has on Sunday. In addition to regular church they have started holding all youth presidency meetings and the BYC is now a 2 hour session at a bishopric members home.

Let everyone love and respect God on Sundays in any way that feels right to them. Remember Jesus and his disciples walked too far, healed people, picked and ate corn, and did many things on the Sabbath that drove the pharisees mad.

This is still driving the pharisees mad here.

Godislove, I have always felt we had too many meetings on Sunday. Church guidelines counsel to not hold extra meetings on Sunday. I once blurted out in a ward council (when I was in the bishopric) that Saturday was more sacred to some than Sunday. I get that Saturday is the only day some have to get stuff done at home sometimes, and for YM/YW many Saturdays are taken as well, but I honestly believe meetings in addition to the three hour block are not keeping the Sabbath.

Otherwise, I seem to be in line with what many of you are saying, that it should be a restful day and perhaps different from others. I guess I’m still not sure how TV fits in then because TV is something we do on all the other days. We never went as far as wearing Sunday clothes all day, etc., and we did encourage homework before Sunday (our general rule was come home, do your homework then do other things anyway) but sometimes Sunday is just when we get to it with sports (especially wrestling). The no TV thing was actually more my wife’s than mine, and she doesn’t enforce a no music on iPods rule, etc.

Growing up my parents were very strict on what we could do on a Sunday. We could only watch church movies, couldn’t play video games, couldn’t play with friends and many other things. I didn’t start watching tv on Sundays until college, and felt guilty about it. My husband and I started out not watching it, but over time it evolved. Now we watch whatever we want or play video games. My parents still don’t watch non-church things, but all of their children do. Most of the people I know watch tv on Sundays now.

Oh, the friends over. I forgot about that one since the boys don’t ask anymore. That was a rule on Sunday as was no spending the night*. I pretty much think that one is actually gone, too, as I’m sure it happened with my now missionary son. The other two boys don’t tend to have friends over anyway, just the way they are, and none of their friends live really close (unlike the older two who had neighbors as friends).

*Side note: if we had it to do over again there would be no spending the night at all, ever. We used to think people who wouldn’t let their kids spend the night or have kids over were weird. Now we understand.

If someone in our house really wanted to watch the Super Bowl, we probably would. But, generally, we don’t have the TV on on Sunday. Force of habit more than a conscious decision, I think. I grew up with nighttime sacrament meeting. The day had a different feel to it then. We were very social in our little ward; we floated around town to each other’s houses, eating and visiting. We listened to a lot of music – recorded and “live.”

I had a little different strokes for different folks moment one year when President Hinckley came back to the Sunday afternoon session, and remarked about something he’d seen on TV during the break!

Since I do not care a bit anymore about made up rules the church imposes I pretty much do whatever I like on Sunday, including TV. I have found it much more restful to relax in my own way than sitting in church clothes all day or reading scriptures for the hundredth boring time.

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