When Was The Last Time You Went To A House-Of-Worship?

[arwalden]

Not including weddings, bar-mitzvahs, funerals and the like. When was the last time you went for services? (You sinner, you!)

-- Allen :hi:

[Khephra]

1. The Universe is my house-of-worship

Who needs a bloody building?

[Pax Argent]

10. Amen

Why is it that folks feel that God only takes calls from churches. Are they like holy little phone booths?

God is a wide-area wireless provider!

[TrogL]

2. I'm the organist - I guess I'd better show up

[pagerbear]

21. They pay me to sing

You'd have to beat me to keep me from going and collecting!

[supernova]

3. I'm ushering tomorrow

so I'd better show up as well. My turn isn't really til August, but I'm filling in for someone else.

Sometimes don't go or I visit another congregation. It's fun to see different places.

[Systematic Chaos]

4. I was seeing this girl and I went to her church

just to see what it was about. It was quite a fundamentalist-type thing and while it tried to be entertaining (and in fact I laughed more than once and even sang along with a song or two) there was an element of hypocrisy that really turned me off.

At one point they showed a film that tried to prove that people who didn't believe in God were way off the mark. They did this by interviewing both Christians and an assortment of atheists, agnostics and other non-Christians, and comparing their views. One problem... when they had any kind of "doubter" on camera, they would warp and distort the picture and sound in order to make the non-believers sound like fruitcakes. But of course the Christians were all portrayed perfectly. I pointed that out to the girl I was with afterward, in a polite way.. almost as an aside, but she still was offended that I would dare to cast dispersions upon the teachings of her church. I pretty much knew right then and there I was in over my head with that one. :)

[stopbush]

24. Back in HS, I was dating a girl at my Lutheran church who was

quite the bosom buddy, so to speak.

At the end of each service, there was a little sung prayer that started with "Create in me a clean heart, oh God." About halfway thru came the words "and uphold me with thy free spirit." That always inspired a furtive glance between the two of us as she usually wore the then-popular "Free Spirit Bra."

Always an uplifting service at the Lutheran church...

[terrya]

5. Other than my dad;s funeral 6 months ago, it's been 25 years

Since I've been to mass.

I quit the Catholic Church the same time I came out as gay to my family.

Terry

[OneBlueSky]

6. about two weeks ago . . . I don't make it a habit, but . . .

my best friend of 35 years was being ordained in the Episcopal Church, and there was no way I couldn't be there for him . . . it was a wonderful service, with a sermon that will be remembered forever by all who were there . . .

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. I worship in my own home free of another's agenda

[Whitacre D_WI]

8. Christmas Eve mass. nt

[AlienGirl]

9. Less than an hour ago

And I dragged Xen there with me!

Tucker (yeah, I'm just that kewl)

[Lydia Leftcoast]

11. I'm in my church's first-string choir

so twice a month, I sing at both the morning service and at Evensong, not to mention special occasions like (most recently) Ash Wednesday.

But I'd go anyway--although I wouldn't attend a church that didn't have a good choir.

[Az]

12. The trick is

finding one that does not burst into flame when I enter. Thank goodness for UU churches. We atheists get to wander around talking to other people and discussing ideas. Great places.

[FloridaJudy]

29. UU? Amen!

Great place to hang out on Sunday morning: lots of fellow heretics to talk to, and the coffee is almost as good as that in AA meetings.

[populistmom]

13. I teach Sunday School

Last week actually. I definately have my crises of faith at times. I don't fit much of anywhere. I'm a rather Zen-like, very open, liberal Christian. Officially now, I'm Methodist, which in the northeast is reasonably progressive, but not enough really for my liking. Can't quite find my religious nitch so to speak.

[starroute]

14. I think I went to one once

When my parents wanted to show my sons what a religious service was like. Aside from the usual weddings, etc., that's probably it.

[Padraig18]

15. This morning.

:)

[NoPasaran]

16. Thirty years

I'm not really into that "worship" thing.

[gator_in_Ontario]

17. Easter Sunday 1972 n/t

[SOteric]

18. Friday for my own. This morning for a differing faith.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

19. There's a beautiful Bahai temple a few miles from me

You can enter almost any time, dressed almost any way, and think whatever thoughts you want, and leave when you're done. The Bahais there are very gracious, and they don't prosletyze, and they don't tsk over your damned and blackened soul. Lots of people could take a cue.

[Interrobang]

20. AFAICR, never, for a real service...

I had a very secular upbringing, and even when my parents realized their "mistake" in that the secular upbringing had "taken" and I didn't believe in deities, and tried to drag me to church, I wouldn't go! That's ok, I went to high school with a bunch of fundies, and organized religion gives me the creeps!

[eyesroll]

22. To any house of worship? Christmas eve.

To a Jewish service (the denomination I was raised in) -- it's been more than a decade.

[mlawson]

23. Once in a while I would take my mother to church. It was just for her

benefit. I felt REALLY out of place, weird, not understanding what they were doing. I learned to dissociate, however. It was worth it, to make Mother happy.

[ikojo]

25. Went for Shabbos services this very morning

Good sermon by the rabbi too!

I don't go every Saturday but I try to make it at least twice a month.

[GreenPartyVoter]

26. Been a couple of weeks

But I've been reading a book about Jesus, so I guess that counts for something.

http://geocities.com/greenpartyvoter/liberalchristians.htm

[regnaD kciN]

27. Six hours ago...

...Saturday evening Mass at St. Aelred's (Apostolic Catholic Church in America). In honor of Women's History Month, the theme of the service was a meditation on the feminine aspects of God.

[BlackVelvetElvis]

28. I went to a Quaker church to hear a friend speak

That was interesting. Everyone sits in absolute silence contemplating and when they feel the urge to speak, they get up and do it. I thought it was pretty interesting. The church layout was very democratic; pews all around the four sides and the speakers sit with the church members. I grew up bapist, so what a departure. They were very anti war as well. Amazing that Nixon was a Quaker.

[scarlet_owl]

30. My wedding four years ago

at the Unitarian church.

[Bertha Venation]

31. I've been a bad influence on Mrs. V.

I haven't taken her to church once since we've been together. :( I now go to flog myself.

(Does anyone have any flog?)

[arwalden]

34. Regular Flog, Or Diet Flog?

I tried the imitation Flog... but it left bruises and a bitter aftertaste.

-- Allen

[Bertha Venation]

35. Diet Flog, please.

The kind with a third less guilt than Regular Flog.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

32. Christmas Eve

whoops! :D

[Mass_Liberal]

33. over 15 years

and I'm 14. }(