Mormon view of the Eucarist.

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Casen:

The only reason for burning or cutting up the symbols on the garment is so they will not be mocked or ridiculed by someone who happens upon them. If we simply threw our religious garments into the trash there would surely be some bigot that would come along and finding them do something inappropriate with them or mock them. However, the sacrament symbols are unlikely to be denigrated by someone finding bread in the trash. This is just a mater of practicality and I don’t think it means that we put more importance on one than the other.

Joseph Fielding Smith said the following about the sacrament:

“…every ordinance of the gospel focuses in one way or another on the atonement of the Lord Jesus Christ, and surely that is why this particular ordinance with all its symbolism and imagery comes to us more readily and more repeatedly than any other in our life. It comes in what has been called ‘the most sacred, the most holy, of all the meetings of the Church".

That is not what I was taught when I was a member of the LDS Church. Nor does your explanation seem logically consistent. Anyone can get hold of compass and square symbols (or make them themselves) should they want to. It would be as simple as getting hold of a Christian cross.

An anti mormon who wanted to profane these masonic symbols could simply draw them on a piece of paper, and then mock them…

Furthermore, throwing the symbols of the body and blood of Jesus Christ into the trash IS denigrating them. When I was a mormon I never gave this practice a second thought. Now when I am Catholic, I understand the lack of respect such an action represents even though we are talking about mere symbols in mormon theology.

 

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I dug up this quote by Joseph F. Smith on the garment:

“The Lord has given unto us garments of the holy priesthood, and you know what that means. And yet there are those of us who mutilate them, in order that we may follow the foolish, vain and (permit me to say) indecent practices of the world. In order that such persons may imitate the fashions, they will not hesitate to mutilate that which should be held by them the most sacred of all things in the world, next to their own virtue, next to their own purity of life.” (Improvement Era, Aug. 1906, 813, emphasis mine)