I wouldn't call my church experiences bad, but I wouldn't call them great, either. I always had this troubling feeling that all the potlucks and activities and me being needled about why I wasn't signing up for the youth prayer vacation thing for two weeks away from my dear family had a hokey undercurrent.
I don't know, I guess I'm a naturally suspicious person, but it all felt rather forced and like it had an agenda other than getting to know Jesus better. Mrrgh.
/bitter tirade
make it through this year if it kills you yet | 2001-2019i generally disagree with the direction most churches and the general 'church culture' if i can call it that takes on a number of issues
not even political just various religious stuff
i'd go on but probably no one wants to hear about hang-ups i have on stuff, pm me if your interested in hearing me ramble
UN JOUR JE SERAI DE RETOUR PRÈS DE TOIOh no, I can definitely understand that.
would type longer but I have to vanish for 5 minutes to walk from lecture
@Hil: hold on lemme check the catechism
@Jam: yeah, I've heard things like that
but that is a rant for another time
like a whole lot of bible belt stuff
but I guess that's also low-hanging fruit at this point, even if it might be low-hanging fruit from a different perspective you might normally see it in
@Seer: Wait seriously? Where you getting that from? I mean the whole Cardinals thing might be just more tradition than anything but it's still How It Is Done
edited 7th Sep '15 6:56:43 PM by ThanatoSeraph
My experiences with churches haven't been the social get-together potluck stuff.
Instead it was.
Rather puritanical fire and brimstone preachy preachy morality stuff.
And very politicized.
Though this is because my parents went to a rather odd church.
Which means I am utterly apathetic about the whole thing nowadays.
my mom took me and my brothers to church all the time when i was little
until i was about 6 and then we just stopped going
i didnt go to church again until i was about 14 or 15 and my dad became born again or something. i dont know, i wasnt there. i didnt even know until a good year later that that happened
so on and off i went for a few years
now
my mom tried to go every sunday but that fell apart after a month i think
and i havent been to church since
edited 7th Sep '15 7:06:01 PM by ChrissieMcNapkins
I live in a constant state of fear and misery.I'm Catholic.
Most of the time.
I don't know.
I bounce about.
Lately I've felt really dissatisfied in my faith. Not out of any one thing or event or thought, just generally coming to terms with the fact that I've never really felt as close to God as I convinced myself I was.
I was confirmed when I was 12. I'd never contemplated existence or come to grips with mortality or felt anything real behind all the promises I was making to the Church.
Meh.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?i just got bored in church and went along with everything until i had confirmation
i honestly can't say i listened very hard to what the priests ever said because it always felt like an hour of a guy talking about stuff i didn't have very strong feelings over
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like that
Of course, there's no way in hell I can let my Marnie know that I'm not really into it. She's got the Jesus paintings and the rosemary beads and always says grace.
I don't really go to Mass now that I'm at uni, and my parents seem comfortable enough to hear me out when I complain about my priest.
I think the catalyst for this feeling was when my priest (who you all know I adore) started speaking on Marriage Equality, which struck me deep.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?

@Mobile: Ah, I see I see.
[insert Wholesome Christian Meme about going to Church here, one of the ones that went around on tumblr]
But yeah, Churches can be very similar to each other... and they can be very very different, depending on priest and culture and whatnot. And getting stuck with a bad environment isn't great. I remember being absolutely shocked by what I was hearing up in a church where relatives at the north of the country attend.
Plus the whole hard to get the routine up in general. So yeah, that's fair. A lot of people that would describe themselves as Catholic don't go to Church very often too, so.
edited 7th Sep '15 6:45:42 PM by ThanatoSeraph