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re: Did you go to church growing up?
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:56 am to SaintlyTiger88
Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:56 am to SaintlyTiger88
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Now that you’re an adult, do you still go to church or did you leave it behind?
Yes, I do. Go to Church every Sunday. My parents were devout Catholics. I don't go back to my hometown very often, but when I do I attend services at my old church. My wonderful parents have long crossed over to the other side. But every time I enter that Church I can almost see Mom and Dad sitting there in that exact pew praying. Mom and Dad always arrived early for services. Then spent their time before services praying. In union with their Creator.
My mother lost her dad and mom at a very young age. Whereupon she asked God (the Father) and Our Blessed Mother to take the place of her lost parents. They did. My mother possessed the gift to heal babies of childhood afflictions. Many many people have witnessed her healings and can attest to her holiness. Her ministry was hospitality. She never knew a stranger. Plus she was one heck of a good cook. OMG her pot roast.
I have been fortunate to have known two holy women in my life. My mother, and my wife's grandmother. Both suffered terrible misfortune in life. Both women were happy joyous souls Both had a staunch faith in their God.
Having said that. Be kind to an elderly fragile woman (or man) today, for you may be helping an angel.
Caelestis Pater, miserere mei, peccatoris. Amen
This post was edited on 2/5/22 at 9:45 am
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Posted on 2/5/22 at 8:59 am to SaintlyTiger88
Growing up, I went to church.
As I mature and realized my faith by embracing the Spirit, I now go to worship.
I get it with you here that don't "believe" anymore. Just had this conversation earlier this week with a good friend: Our elders (parents, grandparents, etc.) did a poor job of teaching us the importance of our faith. There was way too much fear in "looking and acting like the other denominations", that they totally obscured the love of God in our worship of Him. They wrongly highlighted perfect attendance as the salvation solution, vs. loving the Lord and loving our neighbors.
As I mature and realized my faith by embracing the Spirit, I now go to worship.
I get it with you here that don't "believe" anymore. Just had this conversation earlier this week with a good friend: Our elders (parents, grandparents, etc.) did a poor job of teaching us the importance of our faith. There was way too much fear in "looking and acting like the other denominations", that they totally obscured the love of God in our worship of Him. They wrongly highlighted perfect attendance as the salvation solution, vs. loving the Lord and loving our neighbors.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 9:01 am to Displaced
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But historical Catholics being shitty doesn't mean dick about the validity of any other form of Christianity.
Lol, true.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 9:06 am to BestBanker
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They wrongly highlighted perfect attendance as the salvation solution, vs. loving the Lord and loving our neighbors.
Perhaps they did, or perhaps that explanation was simply a child’s way of understanding deeper truths.
What is your highest ideal? What do you value the most? How do you behave in such a way as to maintain that reality in your own life, broken and sinful and prone to temptation as we humans are? Well, you might make it a rule or a dedicated practice to attend worship service and to pray on a scheduled basis, even when you do really feel like it.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 9:39 am to SaintlyTiger88
It is pretty amazing to read how many people do not go to church, but then again I see every weekend when the churches are more and more empty. Covid only gave those on the edge an excuse to not go sooner.
Many people always talk about how the church did this or the people did that is what drove them away.
I don’t go for others or for the priest or bishop or pope.
I go for me and my family.
It is sad to see people cut you off in the parking lot after mass, but worrying about and talking bad other people is also not part of being a Christian either.
Many people always talk about how the church did this or the people did that is what drove them away.
I don’t go for others or for the priest or bishop or pope.
I go for me and my family.
It is sad to see people cut you off in the parking lot after mass, but worrying about and talking bad other people is also not part of being a Christian either.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 9:44 am to SaintlyTiger88
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When you were growing up, did your parents take you to church?
no. it was too expensive.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 9:49 am to SaintlyTiger88
Sunday school at 10:00am, followed by church at 11:00. The latter the longest hour on earth. Don't go now, it's not the same church I grew up with. I'm more old school, than the kaoroke crap they have now. But to each his own.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 9:50 am to ELT
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I don’t go for others or for the priest or bishop or pope.
I go for me and my family.
You're going for the wrong reasons then. The whole point of a "church" is for other believers to congregate and live among one another in faith.
The whole point of Sunday worship is to "worship God". It isn't about you, it isn't about you receiving some religious therapy either to make you feel better about yourself until the next Sunday.
This post was edited on 2/5/22 at 9:51 am
Posted on 2/5/22 at 9:56 am to SaintlyTiger88
Yes. I attended catholic Church every Sunday' attended Catechism (now a former Catholic).
But I'm curious by some of the responses from Atheists.
How many of you who attended church while you were young...went to a Roman Catholic Church?
It's been my stark observation over the years that quite a few Atheists became so disenchanted by Catholicism as a kid that they gave up totally on their belief in God -- AS ADULTS.)
But I'm curious by some of the responses from Atheists.
How many of you who attended church while you were young...went to a Roman Catholic Church?
It's been my stark observation over the years that quite a few Atheists became so disenchanted by Catholicism as a kid that they gave up totally on their belief in God -- AS ADULTS.)
Posted on 2/5/22 at 10:02 am to Liberator
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It's been my stark observation over the years that quite a few Atheists became so disenchanted by Catholicism
Interesting use of a term. Do you think that Catholicism is some form of enchantment? Serious question.
You seem to be implying that Catholicism is some mystic practice as opposed to a doctrinal system of belief.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 10:02 am to BestBanker
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I get it with you here that don't "believe" anymore.
Just had this conversation earlier this week with a good friend: Our elders (parents, grandparents, etc.) did a poor job of teaching us the importance of our faith.
Hear ya.
My folks shoved us kids out the door and to Church -- WHILE THEY STAYED HOME.
Our folks by and large coerced us into attending church as fulfilling what was a social obligation rather than explaining the purpose of "Church" as spiritual touchstone and learning about the Word of God.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 10:04 am to SaintlyTiger88
quote:Yes
When you were growing up, did your parents take you to church?
quote:Yes
Do you feel like it had an impact on your life
quote:Yes
Now that you’re an adult, do you still go to church
Posted on 2/5/22 at 10:09 am to Liberator
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But I'm curious by some of the responses from Atheists.
How many of you who attended church while you were young...went to a Roman Catholic Church?
It's been my stark observation over the years that quite a few Atheists became so disenchanted by Catholicism as a kid that they gave up totally on their belief in God -- AS ADULTS.)
I realized as a teenager that my analytical brain just doesn't allow me to believe in a magical creator guiding us all like a puppet master. Nothing to do with me being disenchanted with the church.
This post was edited on 2/5/22 at 10:10 am
Posted on 2/5/22 at 10:09 am to Zappas Stache
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3 times a week. I'm atheist now as are all my brothers and sisters. Amen.
Sorry you missed the point.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 10:10 am to redneck hippie
the it who replied is "CockyTime." He/she/it is pretty open about liking cock.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 10:12 am to tiggerthetooth
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The whole point of a "church" is for other believers to congregate and live among one another in faith. The whole point of Sunday worship is to "worship God". It isn't about you, it isn't about you receiving some religious therapy either to make you feel better about yourself until the next Sunday.
You both have a point. I go to church so I can worship God and help strengthen the faith of other believers. I also go to teach my children about God's love. Going to church is less about you and more about God and others.
As an aside, I see more people here claim they don't believe because they have a problem with religious institutions rather than with God. I've always equated this with how pharacies persecuted Jesus. A lot of organized religion has turned in to the same thing Jesus spent most of his time fighting. The did everything in their power to separate people from God's love and they keep doing it today.
Posted on 2/5/22 at 10:13 am to SaintlyTiger88
I was drug to church three times a week plus every special event. When I went to college, I started a 1 year slide of not going, not believing, and running from God.
Fast forward to 1999 when God showed me the reality of Who He is. I have never backed down since.
It is not were you taken to church and do you still go. It is, have you ever had an encounter with the Living God? If I had not, I probably would have drifted away. Once you know the reality of Him, it doesn't matter what the church does ... you are there for Him, not them.
Hebrews 11:6
Fast forward to 1999 when God showed me the reality of Who He is. I have never backed down since.
It is not were you taken to church and do you still go. It is, have you ever had an encounter with the Living God? If I had not, I probably would have drifted away. Once you know the reality of Him, it doesn't matter what the church does ... you are there for Him, not them.
Hebrews 11:6
Posted on 2/5/22 at 10:14 am to Jimbeaux
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Interesting use of a term. Do you think that Catholicism is some form of enchantment? Serious question.
Serious answer:
YES.
Catholicism has integrated within its ceremonial "Mass" many pagan practices and symbols into its rites and rituals that by design CAN be a form of "magic".
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You seem to be implying that Catholicism is some mystic practice as opposed to a doctrinal system of belief.
I won't even "imply" it; I'll state it straight up: Catholicism employs many rites and ritual of ancient pagan mysticism. Like Alchemy. The least of which is actually the belief that the wafer "Host" literally becomes "Jesus Christ" again -- along with His Crucifixion. OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
Then there is the matter of the "magical" qualities of statues -- aka "Idol worship" -- incense, Rosary beads, candles, and formulaic prayer incantations. If these aren't tools of "mysticism", then what is?
This post was edited on 2/5/22 at 10:15 am
Posted on 2/5/22 at 10:16 am to SaintlyTiger88
yep... grandfather was a Southern Baptist pastor, so Sunday School, regular service, Discipleship Training, and evening service every Sunday and evening service most Wednesdays, pretty much the entirety of my life til i went to college...
now, agnostic...
now, agnostic...
Posted on 2/5/22 at 10:17 am to SaintlyTiger88
Went most Sundays and occasionally Wednesdays. I have only been a handful of times since I became an adult. Although I am a believer and try to live a Christian life, some of the most judgmental and hypocritical people I've ever met are often church leaders and that turned me off of organized religion. I should have done better with taking my kids when they were young but just never could get into a routine. I did try to educate them about what the Bible teaches. Regardless of one's beliefs, the world would be a much better place if everyone followed the Ten Commandments.
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