Church Sucks

DAHAHAHAHA Samhain I love you man...

 

haha S... actually ive gotten to the point where i am VERY close to bugging my mom about going to religious/theological events that IM interested in and see how she feels. i dont have a religion except believing that "we are all one"... my believes come close to taoism and buddisum though im not a taoist or a buddist per say.... i still get thoughts of next time she bugs me about church, bugging her back about going to a taoist retreat. hehe

 

My moms a buddhist, and goes to a Unitarian church. She really never made me go much even when I was a kid.

I haven't been to a service of any religion in years. Any aperture I grace is spiritual.

 

ive been trying to make my mom let me stay home since around 14. but when i flat out refuse, it usually ends with my mom crying, saying that god loves me too much to let me not go and i dont like seeing my mom cry so i go

 

My mom used to make me attend Morman church when we visited my grandparents. I really disliked it once I was too old for Sunday school. Appearantly my smart mouth and rhetoric were not appreciated in the midst of other impressionable kids.

 

You love a gay... that means your a batty boy.... but thats ok.. live and let live...

 

Yes, now that's my kind of church...nature, the outdoors...

 

See, my mother just gave up trying to make me go, because at the point where she and my father divorced, she no longer went herself, so she really couldn't press the issue.

Now, she is pretty much considered a Pagan, however she still has some "ties" to her old religion. My father is still a devote Catholic.

 

Not sure that "I love you" in this case meant "Bend over and show me your good eye"...

Love doesn't have to be sexual.

Your name "121" is that the odds for something, or does it mean something else? Just curious. Good thing I am not a cat.

I just realized that I NEVER stay on topic. ANYWHERE.

Don't answer my question here, 121. Let's buck the system and stay on topic.

 

I grew up under strict and weird doctrines (cultish non-denominational). For some time I actually believed in all of it.... but even when I didnt I was still forced to go ... and Im talking church like 3 times a week.... we also wouldnt cut our hair, we werent allowed to wear pants, couldnt listen to "worldly" music ..... and on and on and on.......

I've actually been kicked out of the house before, both I and my sister .... simply because we chose to not believe and uphold their outrageous beliefs. We werent bad, we had high morals in fact ... but just because we dared to stand for ourselves, dared to just open our minds and not believe in their "god" ... we got kicked out.... (my parents were going through a super-religious, lets-clean-out-the-house stage, throwing away movies and all kinds of things, lol..... theyve slacked off alot now though, lol.... and after a year we are all together again)

But I mean seriously... I think its downright sickening that family -friggin flesh and blood - will separate themselves from their own children for the sake of religious beliefs ..... it just shows the narrow-minded, sheep-like mentality, of being followers... its all sheer stupidity....

I just kept pointing out to them... "but, wheres the love???...."

 

That's what my husband has had to go through as an ex-Jehovah's Witness. He quit the "cult" back when he was 18, but it doesn't stop them from still hounding him at nearly 32. His mother is still a dedicated JW and has dreams that he will come back, but that will never, ever happen. She had tried to (sneak) and get our oldest son to attend meetings and studies with her, but my husband had a fit when he found out and told her that she was never to take him to any of those things again or he would not let her have our son over. My husband has so many issues due to being raised that way. He's still trying to move on and get past his anger over it all, and how he was deprived of so many opportunities due to being forced into that religion all his childhood. It's been a long process, but I think he's finally coming to his closure, slowly, but surely.

His sister on the other hand, was disfellowshipped, banned from the Kingdom Hall, and his mother is not supposed to have any interaction with her whatsoever. That's just ridiculous. You're talking your own flesh and blood there. How can a so-called religion of God promote turning your back on your own family? I don't buy it.

 

Religion has killed more men (and women) than anything else. It is a fundemental root of all war. Believing in a God is great, religion is a manipulative cancer.

 

agreed. that's pretty much the difference between religion and spirituality right?

I even wonder if my parents would have let me go to church when i was young, especially my dad he really wouldn't like it if i had those kind of thoughts in my head. nut my dad doesn't like religion or spirtuality at all. so i'm still anoying him, because i am quite spiritual :H
But I really think childern should be free to believe whatever they want to believe, you know. forcing your kids to go to church or not to go to church is both bad.

 

Name calling will earn you nothing. Purposely pointing out the sexuality of others makes you a bigot. I bet you're a Pentecostal Republican too, aren't you?

Try again.

 

Right on man. I used to like the posts of 121 until his rather hateful narrow-minded homophobic remark. I agree with you. I don't think any human being is in the place top judge the lifestyle, beliefs, race, religion, gender, etc. of anyone else, and I think that Christianity to some extent fuels all of those judgments.

"LET IT BE"

 

i think church is lame.