that's the definition of brainwashing, right? making people repeat things you tell them to, and believe them...
2006-08-30 18:06:24 · 23 answers · asked by list 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Congratulations!!! you just joined the team of people who realized what churches were made for in the first place!
Welcome, now, please, keep questioning everything and come up with your own answers, we will love to hear them!!!
2006-08-30 18:53:51 · answer #1 · answered by Pablo 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
"do you feel like you're getting brainwashed when you're at church, and you have to repeat things as a group?" -- No, I do not. I feel a bond with the people there. After mass we gather and small talk, It's nice. Also seeing the babies growing, each Sunday. I am still me, sorry, no brainwashing feeling for me. (Maybe I'm daydreaming to much.)
Sorry you feel sinister forces in such a beautiful place. There aren't any, but I can't prove that. Church is a wonderful, peaceful place. I hope you meet everyone around you and find out.
Why don't you look at it like the WHO's yelling for the creatures tormenting Horton to hear them, to save their lives and Hortons. As a group we are heard, our hopes and prayers are stronger, in support of each other. I will never believe in brainwashing, sorry.
2006-08-31 01:24:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you don't like it then dont go. Some people like structure and organization and others like open thoughts and sharing.
I go to church (sometimes) maybe not as much as I should but I prefer familiartity. I feel that this is time I am putting aside for God. I will also "talk" with him while I'm there.
I just can't get into all that hand holding, thought sharing, group singing, prayer circle crap.
Theres a book out there called something like "Why Men Hate Going To Church" I think it's written by a guy named David Morrow or something like that. He's from Alaska.
He makes a good point about this sort of thing, now-a-days church is becoming way to feminine.
2006-08-31 01:16:40 · answer #3 · answered by DREAK 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't feel brainwashed, but I do question how heartfelt it is. When someone tells me what to say, I have to think a minute and decide if I really mean it. I can always just say it, but I really need to process it and decide if I mean it before I repeat it. Repeating it doesn't mean I believe it. It just means I said it.
2006-08-31 01:13:16 · answer #4 · answered by Krystle B 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well by definition of brainwashing maybe your right... teaching the word of God well it's different... it's just a simple logical thing that will constitute to the repeatition of God teaching is the very essence that you always commit the same or mistake even hearing His teaching over and over again... cause if all his creation had accepted all HIS teaching do you think our world today will be as cruel, an imaginative way of life, war over what ( just to show who is poweful ), faminine... who many times must your parents say not to do this ... but still you pretend you haven't it and you still enforce in yourself your freedom to do what ever you want to do... my dear friend the very reason you do hear sermon of the same text every now and then is the principle in life " God gave you the brain to think which is right and wrong but He made it a point that HE is willing to wait for all of us to change our way of life".. with God Words it's not brainwashing it's just giving us enough time to understand and follow what has been fed to us.
2006-08-31 01:18:14 · answer #5 · answered by rudolph d 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, it is participation as a community.
brain·wash·ing (brnwshng, -wôshng) KEY
NOUN:
Intensive, forcible indoctrination, usually political or religious, aimed at destroying a person's basic convictions and attitudes and replacing them with an alternative set of fixed beliefs.
The application of a concentrated means of persuasion, such as an advertising campaign or repeated suggestion, in order to develop a specific belief or motivation.
2006-08-31 01:23:17 · answer #6 · answered by anabasisx 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What you're referring to is the Catholic Church. I'm a Baptist, and we don't repeat things in a group.
2006-08-31 01:14:00 · answer #7 · answered by ted.nardo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We repeat things the Bible says to memorize the word of God. We do it because we want to. Nobody is making you go to any church. Stay home and watch baseball!!
2006-08-31 01:12:11 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
no more so that when i was in earth sciences class and had to repeat the periodic table of elements.
repetition reinforces the ability to recall information.
-eagle
2006-08-31 01:09:46 · answer #9 · answered by eaglemyrick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't go to a church like that. That sounds more like a cult to me.
2006-08-31 01:09:41 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋