Poll

Who attends church regularly? Or tries to.

i do10%10% - 14
i dont, but im christian29%29% - 40
i dont, im not christian60%60% - 83
Total: 137
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11 Bravo wrote:

no i didnt mean the post.  i meant the question in the OP
o idk, was just wondering
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Why do Christians, or any other belief, need to attend church?
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eleven bravo wrote:

what about mosque?
same difference.  nutterpolooza
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what about temple
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I like the ancient roman and greek religion
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Dilbert_X wrote:

Why do Christians, or any other belief, need to attend church?
Human nature.
Uzique
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Dilbert_X wrote:

Why do Christians, or any other belief, need to attend church?
fuckin filthy puritan! you have to attend church and pay your taxes to your local diocese and kneel before your clergy!

cause, erm... god said so.

somewhere.
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Only for weddings and other mandatory parties. Other than that, no.

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Uzique wrote:

@unnamed: if you need to go to church to meet 'cool' people, god help you.

i'd prefer a fucking bar or a lecture-hall or something. somewhere where im not being dogmatized for being born.
I didn't say you needed to. I said you can.
Uzique
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you can meet cool people in your bunk at a concentration camp... doesn't mean i wanna fucking go there.

shit argument
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unnamednewbie13
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Uzique wrote:

you can meet cool people in your bunk at a concentration camp... doesn't mean i wanna fucking go there.

shit argument
No, a shit argument is comparing church to a concentration camp. Come on...

Besides which, the quote you're arguing with specified "I kinda regret," not "you kinda regret."
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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Uzique wrote:

you can meet cool people in your bunk at a concentration camp... doesn't mean i wanna fucking go there.

shit argument
No, a shit argument is comparing church to a concentration camp. Come on...
true.  at least the people in the camp know they are getting fucked.
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11 Bravo wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Uzique wrote:

you can meet cool people in your bunk at a concentration camp... doesn't mean i wanna fucking go there.

shit argument
No, a shit argument is comparing church to a concentration camp. Come on...
true.  at least the people in the camp know they are getting fucked.
The difference being that church is voluntary (unless, of course, you have fanatical parents...then bleh).
Uzique
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look, assuming you put aside all the petty social bonuses and 'keeping up with the joneses' bullshit, people go to church to communicate and pay reverence to their lord/god/deity/priest's penis. saying that church is a good place to go to meet people is about as compelling an argument as saying you like to go swimming often so you can converse with dudes in the shower beforehand. if im feeling social, or like meeting someone new, there's 101 places i'd go before i got to 'attend church' on my list. period.

and you're right, comparing churches to concentration camps is poor, you're totally right. you don't get molested and made to feel as though your entire life is automatically in debt to some mysterious person at a concentration camp. you just get to die without any of that shit hanging over your head. i'll take the camp.
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Last edited by rdx-fx (2010-09-05 21:16:03)

Ultrafunkula
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11 Bravo wrote:

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Uzique wrote:

you can meet cool people in your bunk at a concentration camp... doesn't mean i wanna fucking go there.

shit argument
No, a shit argument is comparing church to a concentration camp. Come on...
true.  at least the people in the camp know they are getting fucked.
That's what makes church so exciting. It's like lotto. You never know when you might win a spin in the confession booth gloryhole.
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The churches I've been to had the srs bsns first, followed by 'Sunday school' srs bsns, which was pretty much followed by an hour or so of socializing until people got tired of standing around in uncomfortable shoes and left. To be honest, the atmosphere then (most of the time) beat the juvenile bullshit offered at schools, though I would have rather been at home playing Super Mario World.

There are some really poor excuses for priests and pastors out there, but the concentration camp analogy is still poor. If you want to go there, then parents should be banned because they too can be abusive.
Uzique
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parents arent an institution set-up to take advantage of the poor and desperate, though...
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Jesus Christ, people...
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Uzique wrote:

parents arent an institution set-up to take advantage of the poor and desperate, though...
Unless they're abusive.
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Uzique wrote:

Dilbert_X wrote:

Why do Christians, or any other belief, need to attend church?
fuckin filthy puritan! you have to attend church and pay your taxes to your local diocese and kneel before your clergy!

cause, erm... god said so.

somewhere.
imma gonna have to read the bible, koran and torah to see if you're trolling dammit
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Uzique
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unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Uzique wrote:

parents arent an institution set-up to take advantage of the poor and desperate, though...
Unless they're abusive.
sorry but at which point do 2 abusive parents become an 'institution'? wtf are you talking about?

churches are an institution. 2 parents looking after a child/children are an individual family unit. they are not the same thing.

dilbert: i think it was written as a p.s. to revelations or something. crammed in right at the end. just before the index.
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Sunday morning church
Sunday night bible study
Wednesday night study
Saturday afternoon door-knocking inviting folks to church


That's everything, I guess I'm pretty involved
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-Sh1fty- wrote:

Sunday morning church
Sunday night bible study
Wednesday night study
Saturday afternoon door-knocking inviting folks to church


That's everything, I guess I'm pretty involved
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