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Super Bowl Sunday is almost here. In my TBM days I never watched TV on Sunday and in general to keep peace, TV is fairly limited for us on Sundays now. I used to be much more caring about the Sabbath, however, and did no work and I had been known to chide my wife for doing housecleaning on Sunday. Please be aware that I still haven’t found the middle way in respect to the the Sabbath because I do believe it to be a commandment that clearly falls under the “love God” category. My question is why some members don’t watch TV on Sunday? BYUTV broadcasts 24 hours on Sunday, and it’s not all strictly religious programming (there is a movie, for instance, every Sunday evening and Granite Flats aired on Sundays). Is there some reason we shouldn’t watch TV on Sunday?
Everybody here watches Sunday TV… One of my sisters made lots of 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. Maybe now they also ban internet. Basically all that’s left are eating, reading scriptures, napping and church meetings. There’s the day of rest and then there’s going into a forced coma. I think the most important thing is that the day feels different – feels more restful. But that means different things to different people.
Some people in one of our previous wards used to brag about a “no TV on Sundays” rule, but they instead watched DVDs on Sunday. I wasn’t sure what the difference was there.
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.
The Sabbath was made for man – as a special day of rest and worship – to worship God according to the dictates of personal conscience. I will be watching the Super Bowl with my family, largely at the demand of three females who love Payton Manning.
Sports porn on the Sabath in Curtis’ house.
😳 hawkgrrrl wrote: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.
Orson wrote: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.
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. 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.
Oh, I didn’t answer your question of why. I think my mom especially thought it would detract from thinking about heavenly Father and Jesus. It was being a part of the world on a day that was suppose to be focused on religious things. journeygirl wrote: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.
I wasn’t allowed to spend the night either. That is one we’re going to enforce too actually, except for sleep overs with cousins. It doesn’t seem like this is as common anymore though anyway. 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!Sunday restful and different. Restful and different. So notgo to church, got it. 
Church and meetings make each Sunday just as stressful and busy as any given workday. 3 hour block, leadership meetings, HT/VT going and coming. Sometimes the only thing different from church and a 9-5 workday is that at least I get a lunch break at work.
I don’t want to create a thread on this, TV/Sunday, this one is close enough to ride on. I’d also like to take a moment to ask… why does conference have to be soooooooooooooooo loooooooooooooooooooooooooong???????????????? Seriously? I know some people really, really enjoy it and it recharges their batteries but I feel like I lose a weekend and I’m right back at work still stressed from the week before. I just can’t sit and watch TV all weekend and the 2 hour gap between sessions is just enough to make you feel like you can’t get anything done. I know, I know, no one is forcing anyone to watch every session live… but still. What do they cover in 10 hours of talks that they couldn’t cover in 3 or 4? Sorry for the vent and for the tangent… just something I wondered about. I know as a convert that “How long is church?” “Three hours.” was met with
😯 😯 😯 much like every investigator. Same holds true for conference.As to why no TV on Sunday? My own theory is that the church hates the NFL. No TV on Sundays… and FHE should take care of MNF. What’s that, the NFL is starting to do Thursday night games? We better standardize activity night to be on Thursdays for every unit.
😆 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. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
nibbler wrote:As to why no TV on Sunday? My own theory is that the church hates the NFL. No TV on Sundays… and FHE should take care of MNF. What’s that, the NFL is starting to do Thursday night games? We better standardize activity night to be on Thursdays for every unit.
😆 Ah yes, it’s all one big conspiracy to get Utah Mormons to reject all other football teams but the BYU Cougars (with their
Saturday playing schedule
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