I volunteered to get up sundays at 4AM to work at Burger King so I wouldn't have to go. What about you ex-worshippers? Can you top that?
2007-02-20 07:05:03 · 24 answers · asked by hot carl sagan: ninja for hire 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
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2007-02-20 07:15:32 · update #1
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I heart sluts as well
2007-02-20 07:17:42 · update #2
I used to hide in the cupboards at sunday school and then when all the lemmings went into mass I would hop out and eat all the refreshments.
2007-02-20 07:08:12 · answer #1 · answered by Shmesh 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't think I can, but....let's see:
I skipped out frequently. When I was old enough to be "trusted" to go by myself, I'd drive the car to the park and sit in the parking lot for 45 minutes doing absolutely nothing. Bored to death but still better than church.
I would skip out after communion. Just oh so casually continue past my seat and sneak out the door.
I'd go to the bathroom and then slide out.
I pretty much always got stuck going, BHD or no BHD (bad hair day). I learned to daydream to get through it. Now I have to wonder - is god responsible for my vivid imagination? So to speak, in a very indirect way?
2007-02-20 15:21:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I was so afraid of the priest that during my First Confession, up at the front of the church, my bladder let go. The nuns were pretty pissed. A few weeks later, I threw up on my mittens. The whole deal just made my stomach revolt.
I didn't get pushed to go to Mass much after that.
2007-02-20 15:10:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was a kid I didn't hate the church at all, but I thought that the rituals in there were funny fancy and so I had difficulty in piously following them in the expected way.
Now I am ... indifferent, as the church neither succeeded in domesticating my soul nor me. But, if necessary, I might want to try to describe a church-ritual in a proper and respectful way.
2007-02-20 15:24:48 · answer #4 · answered by pasquale garonfolo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The worst punishment I ever had as a kid was after a night of some sound drinking at a Halloween Party.
My stepdad figured out I came home very drunk (my friends' mom actually had to carry me up the stairs). So as a punishment (and he hated going to church, too) he made me go to church because it was Communion Day (I was raised Lutheran, we only did Communion once a month).
That tiny tiny cup of wine about made me toss my cookies all over the pastor. Ugh. Still makes my tummy roll over to think about how hung-over I was.
I know this was supposed to be about how we avoided Church, but...
btw, Sara, I had a mohawk and they still made me go. Dammit. lol
2007-02-20 15:18:01 · answer #5 · answered by dorkmobile 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know what would have worked other than being sick.
My dad threw me in the car barefoot once.
When I got older not being at home on Sunday morning worked pretty good.
Sometimes I'd end up going to my friend's Catholic church, but at least there wasn't a teen brainwash class to go to.
2007-02-20 15:12:39 · answer #6 · answered by lilith 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When I was in the Army I Volunteered to go to church to have a break from the drill sergeants... after that... I stayed with my unit, the pentecostals in Alabama kinda scared me a little....
2007-02-20 15:08:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have a wonderful little ceramic magnet that sticks on my refrigerator and it says: "To change everything, simply change your attitude" and it truly does work. I am not an ex-worshiper and I thank God that He has given me the faith and love of Him to worship Him always whether in church or anywhere else I find myself.
2007-02-20 15:16:38 · answer #8 · answered by Mamma mia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
YUP! I hated it too...so much so that my mom told my brother and myself to go to church...well, we DID; we went TO church; stayed in the back parking lot during service, snagged a bulletin after service to "prove" we had been there and came home with the proof. (Unfortunately, we bragged about it to our little brother, who squealed on us and we got grounded..)lol
Couldn't have hated church any more than me when I was a kid!!!
Yet, now I'm a Born again Christian....I wonder what changed???
JESUS, that's what! Before it was nothing but RELIGION, now I have a relationship with HIM!!
2007-02-20 15:14:47 · answer #9 · answered by lookn2cjc 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I hate waking up for church. But when I get there I'm happy to be there and I actuallly feel better. So I don't know how to feel right now.
2007-02-20 15:22:01 · answer #10 · answered by cynical 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋