Current Events > Did you attend church regularly when you were a kid?

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heck, maybe you attend it now, as an adult?

Ive only been a few times. I had a childhood friend who went, and whenever I would stay over on a Saturday night, I would go with them the next day.

Yes, though mainly because my mom made me go. But I was also more devout back then than I am now.

I attended church as a child. I didn't have a choice in that. I attended church as a young adult. I stopped when my church started openly courting the Republican party. I probably would have stopped regardless.

I'm still a Christian, but I don't like getting up early on the weekend and I don't like hearing the same messages again and again.

Yes, for awhile. I think I stopped around age 12-13.

Ive been to church once in my life with my grandmother while I was in my 20s. It was fucking weird. Very cultish.

my parents had a Catholic upbringing, but my dad didn't want to impose anything on us, and let us decide on our on, so I only ever went to church for a few weddings, a memorial, and a couple of my cousins confirmations.

if it was up to my mom, though, we would have definitely had to go.

Yup and I honestly never got anything out of it. Other than were going to make you do yet another thing that you dont want to do after having to deal with school and homework all week

Yes, but at some point my mom stopped going to church.

Never attended church once. Never will.

Less as time went on, but then I went to Catholic school for 7th and 8th grade and iirc we went once a week during school time. Nothing but weddings and funerals since then.

My aunt/uncle went and sometimes we'd tag along, but it was more family bonding than about religion. Never talked about religion outside church.

Yeah I used to pray to God too

Went to one of them Southern Baptist church

Up until around 8th grade.

Granted, I went to Catholic school all the way till 8th grade, so it was kinda a requirement, as we went to mass during school once every other week.

I did until sophomore year. Then I really only went when I visited grandma. Now in days I go on Christmas and Easter.

Yeah, Sunday mornings and sometimes evenings until I was like 9 or 10.

no. i was like eight or nine when i couldnt handle the logical inconsistencies anymore, and stopped going

Unfortunately, my mother was a religious zealot back when I was young. She belonged to a charismatic Assembly of God church, where people say they speak in tongues until you press them on what scripture calls tongues, then the rephrase I meant prayer tongue.

Prayer tongue. :-/

humbullahumballahhumballahyafayadayadayadablehblurblah

It was the kind of church thats 90 minutes long, but they close with the prayer tongue circle and they spout gibberish for another 30 minutes.

I HATED it. I hated it so much.

Nope. I wasn't raised religious. I went to church with some of my friends a handful of times, but I always hated it. I still vividly remember the look of utter disgust on the Sunday School teacher's face when I said I hadn't read the bible/didn't have my own. I was like eight years old at the time.

I tried multiple times over the years to give the whole church thing a fair shake even though I was a militant atheist by the time I was a teenager. During my senior year, some of my classmates invited me to a "revival" at their church and I had no idea what that entailed. They had some obvious con-artist in a crushed velvet suit and snakeskin boots talking about how he used to be a Satanist and led everyone in a fit of hysterical screaming and crying. Scared the shit out of me and I haven't been back to a church (outside of funerals and such) since.

Forced to.

As a kid, I was kept away from other schools of thought because my parents and grandparents made up my mind for me.

When I understood I was taught to believe these things, I felt dirty.

And this was long before I learned of ritual abuse, religious lobbying and tax exemptions for the church.

Yeah, my mom made us. Dad went along until I was 18 when he stopped so I stopped too. Mom didnt like that. She still goes, more than once a week. I got married in a Catholic Church, but I was upfront that I was already living with my now husband. It was you can marry us or not, I really dont care. We dont go, but my kids do to religion class. But I have raised them with the thought that the Bible is full of parables, not what actually happened.

Somewhat regularly I did go to Catholic School until about the third grade.
~Plus my Second Cousin was a Preast.

bumph

Nope

immediate family never really bought in to religion

Regularly until my twenties. I thought my church was okay. I just couldn't see how I belonged there or find much logic in the Bible. There are some stories in there that I like, that's about it.

I'm also surprised not many people spent more than a couple hours in church. We used to have two services occasionally. That's not including Sunday School.

i went to church every week unless i was sick until i was 20 years old.

then i realized that the church i went to was a giant scam so i stopped going.

now the only time i set foot in a church is if i'm with my family at Christmas because they're big on church.

sometimes i manage to weasel out of it though.

I did yeah, but only because I didn't have a choice. I don't go as an adult