Do you still go to church?

Contributor: TheirPet TheirPet
I don't really have a faith and so I don't go to church. It's just not for me.
10/09/2012
Contributor: Beck Beck
I will only go if it is a funeral.
10/09/2012
Contributor: Vanille Vanille
Quote:
Originally posted by Anne
I haven't gone to church since my friend who last took me was really judgmental towards my way of life. If you go, what faith are you? If you don't, why don't you go anymore?
I was raised Roman Catholic, after confirmation my Dad and I stopped going.

Also, I'm out as a lesbian, and so I don't agree with the church's views. Don't miss it at all. I now consider myself non-religious as a whole or rather...I don't really give two shits about religion.
10/09/2012
Contributor: Rod Ronald Rod Ronald
It's just not my bag.
10/09/2012
Contributor: AmethystSmoke AmethystSmoke
Raised Catholic buti haven't attended mass in years. My husband and I have looked for a church (he was raised Presbyterian) on a few time over the years but the Catholic and Presbyterian churches in our area are very different from what either of us was used to both in appearance (many statues/icons) and sermons.
10/09/2012
Contributor: michael scofield michael scofield
nope
10/09/2012
Contributor: MzGreenEyedLady MzGreenEyedLady
Never went.
10/09/2012
Contributor: BrittaniMaree BrittaniMaree
no been 20 years now my gosh time flys
10/09/2012
Contributor: Alyona Alyona
I don't go anymore
10/09/2012
Contributor: - Kira - - Kira -
I only went in the first place because my school made me. As soon as I left that school I stopped going. I'm agnostic, so it makes no sense for me to go to church.
10/09/2012
Contributor: Love Obsessed Love Obsessed
I don't go to church.
10/13/2012
Contributor: FallFire FallFire
I don't go to church, but I go to Bible study weekly.
10/14/2012
Contributor: Beautiful-Disaster Beautiful-Disaster
I haven't gone since I was about... 9 or 10... so that was.. 15 years ago.
10/14/2012
Contributor: Talena Talena
I haven't been to a mass in years. I only go to churches for memorial services.
10/14/2012
Contributor: koola1d88 koola1d88
Quote:
Originally posted by Anne
I haven't gone to church since my friend who last took me was really judgmental towards my way of life. If you go, what faith are you? If you don't, why don't you go anymore?
i go if my sister begs me to go and i feel like it but other than that not anymore
12/08/2012
Contributor: leanright69 leanright69
Go to a church that is composed of people that do the best they can to love the Lord with all their heart, with all their soal and with all their strength, and love one another as they would love themselves. What I have noticed is a lot of people do not love themselves so they have a hard time loving others. And they don't realize that G-d loves them even when they mess up.
12/08/2012
Contributor: Lovesickalien Lovesickalien
I haven't gone to church in about 10 years.
12/08/2012
Contributor: Aishiteru Aishiteru
The last time I went was for a funeral.
12/08/2012
Contributor: Missmarc Missmarc
Quote:
Originally posted by Anne
I haven't gone to church since my friend who last took me was really judgmental towards my way of life. If you go, what faith are you? If you don't, why don't you go anymore?
I don't go, period.
12/08/2012
Contributor: JennSenn JennSenn
I go with my mom to synagogue on most Saturdays.
12/08/2012
Contributor: SilverIsis SilverIsis
As a kid, my parents belived, and still do, that there were more productive things to do on a Sunday morning then to sit around for an hour listening to people make speeches. Now as an Adult, I attend my UU church when i am involved in an activity like singing with the choir I will go but for the most part I agree with my parents' thinking.
12/09/2012
Contributor: Voir Voir
I stopped attending when I decided I really didn't enjoy people looking down their nose at me for not buying into their bigotry.

I live in the south and attended a few Baptist church gatherings with a friend of mine at her behest. They were always making new upgrades to the church - a big giant screen which displayed the preacher's face and surround sound to project his voice for a congregation of probably two-hundred or so people.

Yet prompted for donations to help pay retirement.

Their scorn of sexual relations and practical brainwashing in favor of abstinence.

Not to mention breaking down separate passages in the bible and calling them out with their own personal interpretation. Rather than reading them intact. After taking a Humanities course in which we studied the origins of the bible and many interpretations of Greek words which were translated etc etc etc - the symbolism, the re-writings etc. This irritated me even more.

No I am in favor of abolishing the church as an institution. I'm all for people enjoying their faith and congregating to rejoice in it - but the church has become a monster of an institution which dabbles in politics and has a heavy hand in swaying decisions - it is exempt from taxes when by all accounts it shouldn't be since so often so many are so quick to open their mouths about political affairs and attempt to have their beliefs impressed upon the masses as a law.

No.

I quite deeply disdain 'churches' and their methods.

There are a few which don't fall into this system, there always are exceptions. But for the most part - the pride needs to be cut down.
12/09/2012
Contributor: Kat and Aaron(aaron) Kat and Aaron(aaron)
Raised Southern Baptist...haven't been in years.
12/09/2012
Contributor: I Am Sherlocked I Am Sherlocked
Yeah, I go- Old Catholic.
12/09/2012
Contributor: hanjonatan hanjonatan
i've considered starting to go to church, but i haven't actually gone through with it. and we never really went when i was a kid except for special occasions when my mum wanted to hear the choir.

to the extent that i was raised christian at all, i was raised lutheran.
12/09/2012
Contributor: ARPKasso ARPKasso
I used to as a kid, but at some point my family just stopped going.
12/09/2012
Contributor: Living Doll Living Doll
My parents made me go as a child and I hated it. I'm not religious and I'll never go back.
12/09/2012
Contributor: TransGuy14 TransGuy14
Haven't gone in a few years.
12/09/2012
Contributor: Rod Ronald Rod Ronald
I don't go anymore. There's no point. It doesn't help. I get it, God is good, if there even is a god, whoppty dooo! Heres a fiver, tell Jesus I said "What's up?"
12/09/2012
Contributor: SecretKinksters SecretKinksters
Only on holidays when we go back to each others families.
12/09/2012