I am particularly interested in Christians who don't go to church. And please don't answer "because I'm not a Christian" because you don't have to be a Christian to go to church.
2006-09-11 14:16:10 · 20 answers · asked by Tonya B 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because it's all about entertainment nowadays. It's all about getting as many people in the pews as they can. It's all about the numbers for most churches, I believe. They would rather sing 100 songs than get into the Word of God for fear they might offend someone. What they're really doing is helping a bunch of false converts to stay false converts. That's why you see so many people say, "yeah, I was a Christian, I was saved, but God didn't do this or didn't do that for me so now I'm not." I got news for them. They were never true Christians to begin with and the churches are partly responsible. The true Church is the people not a building. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure there is a church out there faithful to the Word, but I haven't found it yet. The search continues...
2006-09-11 14:31:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My father is a pastor and on Sundays I always dreaded my mother coming in, waking me up, and telling me to get ready for church. I didn't know it was all a fairy tale back then. I just knew that I was bored to tears sitting in the pew for an hour. I don't go to church today because my logical mind has reasoned that Christianity is no different from other religions. It is a way to give people false hope and purpose.
2006-09-11 14:37:02 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I WAS a catholic because that's what my parents made me do. I don't go to church now because I don't share the beliefs of the members and can't stand being around that many hypocrites. It was a small town, I'm qualified to say that. I know those people.
I don't need a church or special building to celebrate my spirituality. I can talk to God where ever and when ever I want. I don't need someone else to do it for me. God is everywhere, not only in a church.
2006-09-11 14:20:47 · answer #3 · answered by Melissa 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Lots of reasons, beginning with "I knew more than those people did". There were various people up in front talking and mostly not saying much of anything, and when they did manage to put together an actual claim, it was generally false.
I did attend a Universalist Unitarian church years later, and enjoyed that. It was like religion, but for adults. But it was still too spiritualist for me, and I preferred the real world outside.
2006-09-11 14:22:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The hypocrisy and the fact that power corrupts, as is evident by looking at most preachers in the pulpits.
I am no longer christian, but when I was, I remember one time we were in church, listening to the priest reading something when all of a sudden there was a commotion out the back, behind the pulpit. Then we all saw a woman, clearly hysterical, come running out from a backdoor into the church, behind the priest, followed by a couple of other priests, eager to restrain her and stop her "interrupting" the sermon.
She was screaming at the priest who was reading to us, saying something about how evil he was, etc.
Well, she was finally caught and forcibly dragged back the way she had come, out of our sight. The priest explained to us that she was "posessed by the devil" and "we should not worry", then continued with his sermon.
Later that day, I found out that the hysterical woman had just found her teenage Son dead. He had hung himself, because our priest, who we all thought of as a "good" man, had told the boy that because he had confessed to him that he was gay, he would never be welcome in heaven and had expressed to the child that he was not to return to "his" church. This had been the reason the kid had hung himself, according to the suicide note. The priest who had so calmly told us this woman was simply posessed by the devil, had KNOWN at the time, WHY she was so distraught. WHAT A GUY, eh? And he had hundreds of people who revered and pretty much saw him as a "direct link" to God. He even had the audacity to SMILE as he told us those lies about that poor, hysterical mother....
THAT's why I stopped going to church. It was soon after that, I realised the power these so-called "mentors" have over their congregation, as noone I related the truth to, even with the proof of a suicide note, could believe he could EVER be capable of lying to them, as "He was a man of God"! Such sheep.
2006-09-11 14:56:08 · answer #5 · answered by googlywotsit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My dad used to go to work on the weekends when we went to church... he couldn't stay more than 30 minutes and then he had to leave. When dad finally was able to have the weekends off we wanted to spend our weekends as family time. Now we just don't go because the churches we ran into only wanted our money and asked about us if we missed one church day. They called us and really bothered us.(No offense to those who do go.) We didn't like the idea of being told we would go to hell if we didn't go. ( I'm also partially Jewish and in the Jewish religion there is no hell. I don't really believe in it anyway.) I feel kind of bad but I believe that religion isn't going to somewhere to sit stiffly and hear someone else tell you what you believe in; it is you believing in what you believe in and know it is with you everywhere. Period.
2006-09-11 14:34:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anna 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I walked out of a church on Dec. 24th 1965 and never looked back. There are no such things as ghosts, goblins, witches or gods.
2006-09-11 15:08:28 · answer #7 · answered by iknowtruthismine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not a christian.
Disclaimer: I don't go to a Christian church.
The reasons I skip church are:
I have nothing to wear (our reverend is gay and very stylish-he sets the standard and we try to follow).
I would rather go rock climbing.
I have work to do.
I am out of town.
2006-09-11 14:22:06 · answer #8 · answered by limendoz 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
because faith and religion are 2 different things and allot of the time mutually exclusive to one another religion the ones who run the church are More about giving over power to those who use peoples faith to control there lives and preach biased views of what any particular sacred book actually says
2006-09-11 14:27:16 · answer #9 · answered by Den P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because I'm an Atheist and church would be a complete waste of my time. I believe in science not fairytales!
2006-09-11 14:22:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋