A Million Ways to Die at Church (Okay 8)

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Apparently, there are “A Million Ways to Die in the West.” While this post isn’t meant to recommend the movie, which family-friendly reviewers warn contains crude humor, we’d like to apprise everyone of the many dangers of your neighborhood meetinghouse. Here are the top 8 ways to meet your demise within your chapel walls:

8. Refreshments

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SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: Donuts (blessed or unblessed) contain chemicals known to the State of California to cause heart disease.

7. Funeral potatoes

You are what you eat. What can I say more?

6. Talk anxiety

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Thump…thump…thump…combined with those donuts, you’ve really got some heart issues coming.

5. Boredom

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It happens to the best of us.

4. Jumping off the stage

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…without a parachute of course. Remember those days?

3. Playing in the dark in the gym

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“Where are you?” “Ouch! There you are!” Every kids dream, every parent’s nightmare.

2. Tripping on a nursery toy

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Apparently, the Church wasn’t a party to the 1997 UN Convention banning land mines.

1. Church Basketball

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Enough said.

Jesse is a twenty-something student of Arabic and the Middle East at Brigham Young University. He enjoys writing, hiking, fantasizing about world travel, and deep discussions. He is a proud member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and served a mission for the Church in South Korea. Jesse speaks Spanish, Korean and (some) Arabic. He can be reached at [email protected].