How often do you attend Church (Or Temple)?

[TheBladeRoden]

We were discouraged from chewing the 'host' at our school. Probably to avoid the sights and sounds involved of an entire congregation masticating over the priest.

 

[puglover]

Some Christian Churches, mainly in the Protestant line, do have open communion.

I've never liked this idea. How can you participate in the symbolic redemption of communion if you don't accept the redemption in the first place?

 

[b etor]

I've never liked this idea. How can you participate in the symbolic redemption of communion if you don't accept the redemption in the first place?

i feel the exact same.

 

[azzaman333]

Never out of choice.

 

[robo-snickers]

i went to church a while back and some crazy dude was running around say crap i didnt understand for hours and it scared my little devils out of me. makes you wonder what they put in that tap... i mean holywater they have there

 

[Mirc]

I was in a Confession when i was a kid (8 ?) so my memory is quite fuzzy; but here's what i remember.
There were 2 types of confessions. The colective one, and the private one. The private one was if you had something very important/big/sinfull thing you had to confess.
Thank God i only had to be in the collective one at that time. I may have been only 8 - but i sure had a lot of things to confess.
IIRC the collective(5-8 people) confession was more like the priest reading stuff to us. He also asked us some vague questions IIRC, and we had to answer some stuff. After that was done he asked us if we would like to talk to him privately.

Well you can't expect me to remember much. I have a 5 minute attention span now - imagine how many minutes it was when i was 8.

True, but 1 correction: the colective one is almost entirely for young children. The private one is used all the time if when you get a bit older (than 8, which was your age then).

 

[Swargey]

You obviously haven't been here very long, then.

On the contrary I've been here long enough to know not to go blabbing my mouth off and start trolling...again

 

[Nylan]

Hey everyone, I'm just wanted to start a little chat here about how often you go to Church or Temple (for non-Christian beliefs). I try to attend often, every week. I'm Christian, and go to Church once a week on Sunday, if I have the chance to. When I go to Church, it is with my family members

Post away...

Six days a week, if you mean an activity in the church buildings.

-Full church service on Sunday
-Seminary (scripture study class) every school morning
-Activities on Wednesday nights

plus the odd Saturday activity.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

On the contrary I've been here long enough to know not to go blabbing my mouth off and start trolling...again.

Come on, can you really say anything worse than, say, Curt? Or a dozen others who are none too fond of religion? Maybe the problem is just that you state it so badly.

Seminary (scripture study class) every school morning.

I remember early morning seminary. I actually only did it my senior year though . . .

 

[bhsup]

The last time I was in a Church was in May, I was sightseeing in Manchester and visited the Cathedral (now famous for being a battlefield in Resistance Fall of Man and not getting the permissions to do so... fun stuff).

The last time I attended a service was... 6 years ago in my final year at Catholic secondary school and that was under threat of expulsion, though they called termed it "transfer to a school that better suits your views" when asked why the Hindu and Muslim pupils would not be forced to attend I was hit with a resounding wall of silence and the threat was repeated for being insolent or some other cute label for asking a cutting question... funny I should have claimed to be Muslim instead of atheist.

I do not intend to attend one ever again, bar the weddings and funerals of other people.

Theres something deeply wrong with forced religious observation...

Just to clear something up, that isn't forced. You were free to leave, yes? Nobody twisted your are and didn't let you leave, actually MAKING you go to service. You chose to do so rather than switch schools.

 

[Swargey]

Come on, can you really say anything worse than, say, Curt? Or a dozen others who are none too fond of religion? Maybe the problem is just that you state it so badly.

Well there are basically two ways of saying you don't like something:

"I really don't like this because....blah blah blah etc...."

or

"This is ****ing ********!!!"

I choose neither in this case.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Well, what you should have said is "I am incapable of stating my opinion of religion using language that won't bring moderator attention", which says more about your grasp of English than your views of religion.

 

[Swargey]

Well, what you should have said is "I am incapable of stating my opinion of religion using language that won't bring moderator attention", which says more about your grasp of English than your views of religion.

Or maybe you are the only one who cares about my English

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

Or maybe you are the only one who cares about my English.

Oh I don't care about your English. But for your sake you are going to need to learn how to express yourself without getting the Mod smackdown, after all . . .

 

[Swargey]

Oh I don't care about your English. But for your sake you are going to need to learn how to express yourself without getting the Mod smackdown, after all . . .

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[Norbert]

Every week, when I can. Also, weirdly, our pastor said we practiced "open communion", but then said that that meant you could communionize if you wern't a member of the church. Even I knew that wasn't what it meant...

 

[CCA]

Because sometimes the priest is a socialist and attacks the rich people and the aristocrats and the capitalists with

der facny sseeegars and der fancy mottorcars and der fancy diamons on their pinkys