On today's edition of "Eran asks questions about Mormonism that no one asked", I am going to discuss the odd way in which we sometimes quote scripture.
Now, I sometimes see youth groups from other churches around here in the DC area, and they often have Biblical quotes related to whatever theme their group has on their group t-shirts, complete with the actual citation in small print underneath. In other words, when they are using the words of the Bible, they do so in the same context.
Now, we do this when we are teaching or giving talks or whatever, but we constantly quote scriptures in casual conversation, only in a different context. And we have more scriptures to quote from.
For example, I saw a movie (made by an LDS filmmaker about 10 years ago) in which an FBI agent tells a small town sheriff of a murder victim that "her blood isn't exactly crying out from the ground" or something like that, and the sheriff is able to tell that the FBI agent grew up LDS, not because of the words of the quote (which are in the Bible) but that the context was completely nonreligious.
Or - in the Book of Mormon there is an extended allegory in which, among other things, the vanity of the world is described as "a great and spacious building". So of course we are prone on occasion to describe other buildings as great and spacious.
Hope everyone understood what I meant by that. It's a cultural thing really.
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