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I had to attend a church session the last week because my girlfriends cousin was part of a communion, he is like 8.
Well through out the time being there the members of the church and believers would pray and stand, etc. I felt uncomfortable because I was with a bunch of my gf's relatives. So I just followed along but didn't pray or anything.
I want to just sit there but wasn't sure how that would look ecspecially with other people ptaying behind my neck and breathing on me.
What would you have done?
I also feel bad for laughing so much because the priest was an old man who kind of sang the songs and it was like attending American Idol during the bad auditions. I tried to chuckle quietly since I couldn't stop myself. I almost burst out laughing, that would have been more embarassing though.
I went to a Pentacostal revival once, on the begging and pleading of a pretty girl I was interested in.
I just sat through the whole thing, all three and half hours of it. I didn't make a scene, but I didn't participate either. Preacher-man spotted me in that crowd of many hundreds, and as soon as his sermon was over, he made a bee-line for me. I think he was a little shocked to see how his peer-pressure psychology didn't work on me, and after about a two-minute conversation he walked away and I was very politely escorted out.
Never got the girl either.
After watching her "speak in tongues" I didn't want the girl anymore.
I've gone to a couple of my cousins communions and I just stayed quiet and respected what was going on. Never lasted really long...maybe 30min-1hr tops. Then afterwards its just a party. I never found any big deal going to a communion as an atheist since no one ever provoked or questioned me about it. The main thing was that I was there for my family member to celebrate that special time in his/her life.
I may be a little hard on this but in my view to go and accept communion would be hypocritical. I personally only go to a church for weddings, and funerals. If I am looking at architecture I might tour one, but to join in on any of their religious rites is out of the question.
I may be a little hard on this but in my view to go and accept communion would be hypocritical. I personally only go to a church for weddings, and funerals. If I am looking at architecture I might tour one, but to join in on any of their religious rites is out of the question.
Well if you go for funerals aren't you accepting the fact they've probably gone to heaven and they are with God now, etc.? I would imagine not... you are merely there to pay your last respects to that person. Well when I go to a communion I'm there for family member who wants to celebrate the occassion with all her family members and friends...not the religious part. I don't even know what it means to make your communion or whatever.
Would you stand for God Bless America during the bottom of the 7th inning at a baseball game? I don't believe in god but I stand up out of respect for the tradition..
I haven't in awhile but I used to go to church functions fairly often. I don't mind, and I'm always respectful. I don't do anything special in a Catholic church, it's not expected.
It depends. For Christmas, when I go with my parents, I will do the standing bits, but not the kneeling bits. I sit during those.
Weddings, at least the ones that I go to, are generally pretty secular, with only a few god references thrown in now and again. I will do the standing bits, because they are usually about the bride walking down the aisle, and other human stuff. I will not kneel or stand for the god bits.
Funerals are different. Depends on who died, who I am with, where in the church. For my grandfather, when I was asked to do a reading, I did all the kneeling/standing/etc because I was in the front row. It would have been disrespectful to the family to do anything else (I did not take communion). For everybody else I pretty much stay to the back of the church and sit throughout.
I actually enjoy catholic ceremonies. Nobody does a gaudy god show like the Catholics.
Lol...ain't that the truth
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