Does the idea that member of the restored Church of Jesus Christ have lawns in Utah because of their religion make any sense to you?

[rpn]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/25/mormons-lawns-utah-old-testament-godly-act-megadrought

 

Maybe I should have put this IN THE NEWS.   But I am seriously wondering whether any member anyone knows in Utah waters their lawn BECAUSE of scripture?   The premise of this article is totally foreign to me (IME one keeps a good lawn --- including xeriscapes, when so desired, admittedly not the familiar choice to many---anywhere in the world because happy landscape finishes a home, and no one wants their neighbors to think they aren't responsible home owners.   Never have I ever known the choice (and I lived in UT for 20 years) to have anything at all to do with scriptural exhortions or anything religious (unless one calls being a good neighbor "religious")

What do you think?

[bluebell]

3 minutes ago, rpn said:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/25/mormons-lawns-utah-old-testament-godly-act-megadrought

 

Maybe I should have put this IN THE NEWS.   But I am seriously wondering whether any member anyone knows in Utah waters their lawn BECAUSE of scripture?   The premise of this article is totally foreign to me (IME one keeps a good lawn --- including xeriscapes, when so desired, admittedly not the familiar choice to many---anywhere in the world because happy landscape finishes a home, and no one wants their neighbors to think they aren't responsible home owners.   Never have I ever known the choice (and I lived in UT for 20 years) to have anything at all to do with scriptural exhortions or anything religious (unless one calls being a good neighbor "religious")

What do you think?

I just created an OP in the general thread linking this article and asking the same question. The idea is crazy. 

[Stargazer]

28 minutes ago, rpn said:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/25/mormons-lawns-utah-old-testament-godly-act-megadrought

 

Maybe I should have put this IN THE NEWS.   But I am seriously wondering whether any member anyone knows in Utah waters their lawn BECAUSE of scripture?   The premise of this article is totally foreign to me (IME one keeps a good lawn --- including xeriscapes, when so desired, admittedly not the familiar choice to many---anywhere in the world because happy landscape finishes a home, and no one wants their neighbors to think they aren't responsible home owners.   Never have I ever known the choice (and I lived in UT for 20 years) to have anything at all to do with scriptural exhortions or anything religious (unless one calls being a good neighbor "religious")

What do you think?

I live in the UK, and if The Guardian says something I tend to discount 80% of what they say, by default. They are rather like the Salt Lake Tribune, except possibly even more biased. The paper is well-known over here to be extremely left-wing and eager to make fun of religion.

"The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country."

 

[provoman]

Makes no sense at all.