Do You Go To Church On Sundays?

My mother was raised by Catholic Nuns in an orphanage from the age of 2 ..forced to attend church every day and 3 times on a Sunday until she was 16 years old and beaten every day by the vicious so called brides of Christ...grrr!!!
 

crochet lady said:
I do not attend Church. I really have tried. My conclusion= I don't seem to ever fit in and I'm not comfortable with public worship. Result=I keep my faith and worship private. It's between God and myself.
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This was always my feeling.. I was also VERY uncomfortable with public praying and worship.. I also preferred to keep things personal and private
 
Jackie22 said:
I was raised in the Baptist Church and I had doubts too growing up, I remember asking the preacher about something in the Bible one time, not understanding how it could be...he told me "we don't question what is in the Bible." ....I rarely go to Church now.
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...yup that would have had me running in the opposite direction as well if it had been said to me..
 

To answer my own question, no, I don't ever go to church and haven't since I was a mere lad of 10. I am a Secular Humanist as per my Avatar. Now that will cause some to pull out a dictionary or encyclopedia.
 
Lon said:
To answer my own question, no, I don't ever go to church and haven't since I was a mere lad of 10. I am a Secular Humanist as per my Avatar. Now that will cause some to pull out a dictionary or encyclopedia.
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Nope. I know what a humanist is. A couple of the volunteers in Uganda were humanists. Of the volunteers in my organisation there most seemed to be atheists or agnostics. My husband being the only catholic. When we saw groups of Americans who had lots of children we knew they were evangelicals and ran in the other direction!
 
Ameriscot said:
Nope. I know what a humanist is. A couple of the volunteers in Uganda were humanists. Of the volunteers in my organisation there most seemed to be atheists or agnostics. My husband being the only catholic. When we saw groups of Americans who had lots of children we knew they were evangelicals and ran in the other direction!
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or Mormons LOL :D
 
Ameriscot said:
Questions were not encouraged at all. Not even discussions. Just memorizing. I went to catholic school for 3 very long years. Grades 3, 4 and 6. I was 12 when I began to seriously question this stuff. Age 14 in catechism class our lay teacher told us there was no fire in hell, it's just the worse thing anyone could imagine and that was why we were told fire. She said hell was the absence of god. Hmm...okay, what else was a lie?! The end of catholicism for me.
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This is a typical reaction of a young person who discovers that everything is more complicated than the lessons imparted to them as a child. As a Sunday School teacher I try very hard not to teach anything that will have to be unlearned later and not only do I give permission to question and doubt, I actually model both. I also encourage them to keep an open mind in that hearing a story once does not mean that you understand all the nuances and have full understanding of the message. This is why we revisit some stories often.

Adults who revisit the scriptures and who make some effort to understand historical and social context can find meaning that eluded them as children; things that are relevant to them in their stage of life and in the current stage of history. It is possible to read the bible sceptically and still find truths about humanity in general and ourselves in particular.
 
No, I don't go to church. I went on Saturday for 30 years and I don't plan to ever darken the doors of a church again. I am not an atheist though.
 

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