"I So Bored"

I have to admit Church is somewhat boring. The teachers aren't bad. The problem is that we discuss the same basic topics over and over with no real depth. I once heard someone remark in Elder's Quorum that the reason we have the same lessons is because we haven't mastered the basics. It sounded good, and I accepted it as the truth.

Then I was the listen to Mormon Stories #605: "An Analysis of the “Joseph Smith’s Teachings about Priesthood, Temple, and Women” Essay". They stated that men leave the Church more than women. Why? Men will more readily leave for self fulfillment while women, who also lack self fulfillment, will stay for the community.

At 1:01:00 in the podcast, one of the panelist says:
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I think very stereotypically women tend to value Church for community. Men tend to value intellectual process, and there's something that has become very unintellectual since the correlation system came to play in our Church culture.  I hear over and over again from man, "I am flipping bored. It's the same lesson; it's not challenging." When you think about the founders of our faith, however you may feel about them, it was very intense, intellectual, challenging discussion which really invited a sense of breaking apart your own dogma and your own ideas and your own biases that we no longer really find valuable in our culture. Our culture right now values conformity and I don't think that really speaks to men [and women]…and women, while they [women] may be also bored, they see the value in the community.

AMEN!