SierraLea wrote:I grew up with it and intend to enforce it if I ever have kids.
Just think, it's like a memorial for the greatest hero of all mankind, we get to celebrate it every week, and some people don't go? I will never understand.
Also, for some it can be a socail event, where they get to meet up with firends, talk, and have the world's best party sitting alongside them.
Atria35 wrote: even if she was bleeding to death) it would have disqualified her.
SierraLea wrote:I grew up with it and intend to enforce it if I ever have kids.
Just think, it's like a memorial for the greatest hero of all mankind, we get to celebrate it every week, and some people don't go? I will never understand.
Also, for some it can be a socail event, where they get to meet up with firends, talk, and have the world's best party sitting alongside them.
SierraLea wrote:Just think, it's like a memorial for the greatest hero of all mankind, we get to celebrate it every week, and some people don't go? I will never understand.
Yamamaya wrote: So I was surprised when I found out for some people, they always go to churches three times, Sunday morning, evening and Wednesday nights for prayer meetings or some other worship type event. What shocked me even more was that people put these church times above everything else. Thus, family get togethers, birthdays, and anything else were no exceptions. Church attendance was put above everything else, unless someone had a bad illness the entire family was expected to go to church. In fact I know one person who is still required by their family to go to church every week even though this person is an adult.
Did anyone else grow up with this? Or am I just an odd one?
Atria35 wrote:Because it's a serious damper on a social life and/or work life? Not everyone can afford to have a job that leaves them free on Sundays (when they're old enough to have jobs). And when I was in high school/college, Wednesdays were often the only afternoon I had free to hang out with people - I would have lost a few friends if they'd been forced into that because I would never have been able to see them.
You're also assuming that your kids will grow up to be Christian. They might decide at some point they're not (yes, even as teenagers), and even if it turns out to be a temporary thing, forcing them to go - forcing God down their throat - can only serve to alientate and antagonize them.
For a friend of mine, she had to attend every church service for 5 years in order to be considered in good standing and eligible for missionary service. And I mean, if she had missed any (pretty much no matter the reason why, even if she was bleeding to death) it would have disqualified her.
SierraLea wrote:I grew up with it and intend to enforce it if I ever have kids.
OH! Somehow the topic went from 'every week' to 'every time there's a service', as in Sunday, Saturday, Weds, and any other day of the week they might hold one. I was responding thinking you were saying you'd enforce going every time there was a mass, period.If it interferres with your work schedule, there are lots of different mass times. It's usually just one hour of your busy week. I was talking about just attending one mass on Sundays.
By the way, it's seen as a serious sin by Catholics if you have the opportunity to go to mass on Sunday and don't go on purpose. It's called keeping the Sabath holy.
SierraLea wrote:By the way, it's seen as a serious sin by Catholics if you have the opportunity to go to mass on Sunday and don't go on purpose. It's called keeping the Sabath holy.
mechana2015 wrote:Yamamaya wrote: So I was surprised when I found out for some people, they always go to churches three times, Sunday morning, evening and Wednesday nights for prayer meetings or some other worship type event. What shocked me even more was that people put these church times above everything else. Thus, family get togethers, birthdays, and anything else were no exceptions. Church attendance was put above everything else, unless someone had a bad illness the entire family was expected to go to church. In fact I know one person who is still required by their family to go to church every week even though this person is an adult.
Did anyone else grow up with this? Or am I just an odd one?
I didn't grow up in this but I've been to churches since that have had this attitude towards their constituents, and in my opinion it all comes down to power and control. Churches that enforced this sort of thinking rarely had the attitude SierraLea had towards God (reverence) and rarely if ever actually had sermons on the Bible such as the aforementioned series (as Furen mentioned), and were more focused on the pastors pet peeves and how he could biblically justify them as things to avoid. Essentially the enforced attendance was a power trip by the pastor and their power structure to enforce their opinions (not biblical teaching since the Bible rarely came into play in a meaningful manner), and maintain a 'following' by essentially caging members with 'christian responsibilities' to ensure they were too busy to do anything but attend church and follow the pastors orders.
SierraLea wrote:Atria35 wrote:Because it's a serious damper on a social life and/or work life? Not everyone can afford to have a job that leaves them free on Sundays (when they're old enough to have jobs). And when I was in high school/college, Wednesdays were often the only afternoon I had free to hang out with people - I would have lost a few friends if they'd been forced into that because I would never have been able to see them.
You're also assuming that your kids will grow up to be Christian. They might decide at some point they're not (yes, even as teenagers), and even if it turns out to be a temporary thing, forcing them to go - forcing God down their throat - can only serve to alientate and antagonize them.
For a friend of mine, she had to attend every church service for 5 years in order to be considered in good standing and eligible for missionary service. And I mean, if she had missed any (pretty much no matter the reason why, even if she was bleeding to death) it would have disqualified her.
If it interferres with your work schedule, there are lots of different mass times. It's usually just one hour of your busy week. I was talking about just attending one mass on Sundays.
SierraLea wrote:If it interferres with your work schedule, there are lots of different mass times. It's usually just one hour of your busy week. I was talking about just attending one mass on Sundays.
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