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exactly

God would rather have me sleep in than pack into a church packed wall to wall with coughing idiots!

Never had and never will.

at least once a month

Confucious say : "He who farts in church, sits in own pew"

That being said, we adult biz types have more right to be in church than any of the supposed good folk.

I go a few times a year, though I have been avoiding those mass contrition services and I do not take communion (if you are Catholic, you know what I mean when I say that I don't consider myself to be in a state of grace.)

Considering the scandals in most churches (Catholic and otherwise; we just have a really bad publicity agent,) I don't feel so out of place. I just wish the holy water wouldn't burn me when I sprinkle it on my head.

Big Lou

Nope... I am not a sheep... I do not follow any god or leader... I am a free thinker and do not beleive in all that fairy tale mumbo jumbo.

A funeral.... What a morbid fucking tradition.... going to look over a dead body. That makes no sense to me what so ever.

My parents used to force me to go to the mormon church when I was a kid. I hated every boring minute of it. I went with my cousins family to their church(pentacostal I think you call it) a couple of times and those fuckers were weird. Talking gibberish and pretending to pass out when "blessed" by the preacher. At 14 or 15 I realized no person knows more about how everthing got here or what's after death than any other person.

church is for all those brainwashed suckers that actually believe all the BS they're being fed.. very sad. they will tell you that money is evil yet they want as much of your money as they can get..

I used to go all the time but i had a look around me in the churdh noticed a bunch of rerards listening to an idiot that didn't shit about the gospel. And also the church was very anti everything i was!

I love many of these responses--they state how I feel. Thanks!

Dave
www.davecummings.com

Before I moved to Charlotte last Fall, I used to surf every day, so I guess I used to....I'm making a pilgrimage to Kauai in March.

Go Pathers!:thumbsup

No for reasons stated. However as with many I DO go for events such as the odd marriage and death. This has fuck all to do with religion and 100% to do with respect for the people concerned. If either of those events happen elsewhere then all to the good.

Amen Brother !!!

That's because you're possessed by demons. :1orglaugh

My mum used to take me when I was little every week but now that I'm older I only go for wedding, funerals, christenings, etc.

I'm catholic but when I do go to church I never take communion, I don't feel I deserve to coz I don't go!

That's incredibly disrespectful. I hope you are joking.

Perfection! :thumbsup

a few times a year when i go to visit my parents

only for funerals and weddings

besides people who think they are "washing their sins away" church is mainly a place for people to go and gossip

religious dogma does not stand up to any intellectual scrutiny.

religion is a cultural artifact. what you believe depends on where, and when you were born in the world.

if the human timeline is the length of a yardstick, our contemporary experience is about .0001 inches.

just a few hundred years ago people thought the earth was flat, today we've walked on the moon, water may probably be on mars, and man has created complex mammals through asexual reproduction.

religion does have plenty of benefit for many people---it relieves human stress and suffering, and makes people feel better, it can "cure" much psychosomatic illness, though it does nothing for organic disease. just once i like to see the faith healer curing people of cancer at the civic auditorium get in his mercedes and drive over to the community hospital and work his magic on the oncology ward :)

if you put religion in a balance and asked whether it is good for mankind or bad, it would probably be a wash.

while the salvation army is housing homeless in warming centers in the winter, camel jockeys are trying to figure out how to steal airplanes and destroy buildings---all in the name of their "god".

nothing changes much, from the crusades to the beefs in ireland, to the beefs in israel and palestine---it's always my god is the only true god, and you are an infidel if the don't believe in my god, and are not worthy or life.

so, to answer the original question:

no, though i was raised in a "god-fearing" family, i do not go to church.

religion and morality are not the same thing.

Just to say basically the above is everything I could not be bothered to type.

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I often wonder who are the bigger sheep...christians or athiests...

same here

I do not have any business with churches.

don't forget about the people, who will die of aids in Africa, South-America and Asia, they still follow what the vatican says, some of their bishops even said "our scientists have proven that the aids virus goes through the pores of the condom"

isn't this person liabel for murder? seriously, one day I would love to sue the vatican

also, they didn't object the nazi's, even worse they made priests preach that people should go fight together with the germans against the russians, bastards, traitors

Christians are the bigger sheep because atheists share no common belief system or moral code. The only belief that atheists necessarily share is a disbelief in a creator/supreme being.

only when there is some reason that I would be insulting someone I care about if I didn't go (mostly my parents). These are mostly weddings and funerals.

I was so brainwashed as a child in church that I do sometimes get uncomfortable going into them but I also feel like I am strong enough to know that just because I go in doesn't mean i am part of the religion.

In some small towns, such as the one where my grandparents live the church building serves just as much function as a town hall..everyone has to go there eventually.