Conversation #2

Conversation about a lesson I was planning for Relief Society:

n: There’s too much information, but I don’t know what to cut.
d: You could cut 90% of that.
n: No I can’t. It’s there for a reason, it’s important.
d: 85% of people in the church are morons and they won’t know what you’re talking about anyway.
n: 85% of people who make up statistics are morons. (this was said in a nice way, he’s my dad, we can make fun of each other)
d: You’re gonna teach this class about resurrection and 2 people will understand what you’re saying and the rest will want to tell stories about their Aunt Bertha who came back to visit them.
n: Maybe 1 person will have a story like that, but as a teacher, I don’t have to let them tell it.
d: I’ve taught every class there is to teach in the church from primary through high priesthood, and NOBODY understands the lessons. That’s why we keep teaching the same thing.
n: And yet you knew it well enough to teach it and you decided it wasn’t true.
d: I never said it wasn’t true!
n: Dad, yes you did. You said the church wasn’t true, God didn’t exist, and Joseph Smith was (and I am quoting here, so please forgive me) full of shit. You said that while teaching a priesthood lesson.
d: (Smiling) Joseph Smith was full of shit.
n: Then the church isn’t true.
d: I didn’t say that.
n: You can’t have it both ways.
d: (Shrugs)