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ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
ARE WA DARE DA
#447401: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:43:56 PM

@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

MobileLeprechaun (: from Grayrock, TX Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
(:
#447402: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:49:58 PM

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 | 2001-2019
HilarityEnsues Since: Sep, 2009
#447403: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:50:42 PM

im an atheist

but i want to wear the pope hat

is it ok if i become catholic just long enough to put it on, its a nice hat and im seriously having an internal crisis over this

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#447404: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:52:03 PM

Perfidious malcontents.

ChrissieMcNapkins bruhonetta from the traphouse Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
bruhonetta
#447405: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:52:11 PM

yall motherfuckers need jesus

I live in a constant state of fear and misery.
Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist
#447406: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:53:39 PM

Noa no!

Also...it saddens me to say that what Mobile said is kind of the norm the south.

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Bcom Since: Jun, 2014
#447407: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:54:24 PM

they don't need jesus, they need the internet

luckily I know a guide

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#447408: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:55:07 PM

Technically, any Catholic male who has reached the age of reason, is not a heretic, is not in schism, and is not “notorious” for simony can be elected pope — there is no other requirement for election (although there are several requirements before a person can actually assume the papacy once elected). It might even be technically possible for them to elect a non-Catholic male, if they had reason to believe that he would immediately convert to Catholicism.

thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#447409: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:55:34 PM

i 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 TOI
ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
ARE WA DARE DA
#447410: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:55:36 PM

Oh 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

Trip Since: Mar, 2012
#447411: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:55:56 PM

heeeeeeeey~

who wants to draaaaaaaw~

ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#447412: Sep 7th 2015 at 6:58:20 PM

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.

eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
HilarityEnsues Since: Sep, 2009
#447414: Sep 7th 2015 at 7:00:40 PM

my personal experience with church has been very positive for the most part, even though im from the south

i just don't believe in religion at all

i must be some kind of bizarre statistical anomaly

Boxen whatever he can Since: Jan, 2013
whatever he can
#447415: Sep 7th 2015 at 7:01:41 PM

i have gone to temple literally once in my life

dead devotion
ChrissieMcNapkins bruhonetta from the traphouse Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: Hoping Senpai notices me
bruhonetta
#447416: Sep 7th 2015 at 7:05:10 PM

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.
Lilqueendaisy A chill feller from Not Earth Since: Jun, 2011 Relationship Status: In love with love
A chill feller
#447417: Sep 7th 2015 at 7:05:38 PM

Never been to church once in my life.

Except for funerals and that one easter thing.

LOVE IS STORED IN THE AXOLOTL!
ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#447418: Sep 7th 2015 at 7:05:41 PM

One of the things I remember quite well from my old church was the stereotypical Protestant "Catholics aren't real Christians" thing.

Which I never understood back then because I was little.

I don't know if that's a good barometer of what it was like but.

Yes.

MobileLeprechaun (: from Grayrock, TX Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
(:
#447419: Sep 7th 2015 at 7:06:56 PM

Oh, I got that, too. It was all this fuss about praying to the Saints and shit. Very odd, that these tensions persist even to this day.

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SR3NORMANDY Problem Child from N/A - In constant flux Since: Jul, 2012
Problem Child
#447420: Sep 7th 2015 at 7:07:48 PM

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?
eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#447421: Sep 7th 2015 at 7:08:10 PM

that's just

so bizarre

now i understand depicting other denominations as like

misguided dingelschmidts

but saying they're not real christians, that's some stupid shit

as scary as benedict looked, it's not like satan was elected pope or somehting

Rivux same old me from [a jump to the sky turns to a rider kick] Since: Aug, 2010
same old me
#447422: Sep 7th 2015 at 7:08:51 PM

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

[up][up]like that

mario is red, i am green, i try my best, but everyone's mean
ramuf Electric Heart from the Shining Throne Since: Jan, 2013
Electric Heart
#447423: Sep 7th 2015 at 7:09:18 PM

If I recall correctly.

My church didn't have a beef with Saints.

Their biggest beef was with confession, I think.

Of all things.

That was it.

SR3NORMANDY Problem Child from N/A - In constant flux Since: Jul, 2012
Problem Child
#447424: Sep 7th 2015 at 7:12:18 PM

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?
eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#447425: Sep 7th 2015 at 7:12:20 PM

admittedly i don't like most of the theological inanity that's been cooked up over the literal hundreds of years the church has existed, but that's to be expected

also the fact that the catechism still says homosexuality is a mortal sin disgusts me


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