How many people have had a bad experience in a church?

Question

I am a christian, I have Jesus. I was just curious to see how many people would answer this question. If so please tell me what happened where you rejected, hurt, laughed at, etc. And i would also like to say whatever your experience was, please do not let this experience keep you from finding the love of Jesus Christ. For a long time i thought churchs where fake because of certain experiences that i had with a church i was in. Just remember they are not all the same like i once thought.
The love of Jesus is out there I found it and I know that you can find it too.

thanks for commenting folks but i didn't ask to be judged about my beliefs. i have a right to believe what i believe just like you do. all i was asking is how many people were offended in a church. not what you thought about me.

Answer 1

It depends on the kind of church and religion where you belong. If you belong to a religion which is not a true christian and a false religion with false prophet, thats it. You will experience annoying things.
jtm

Answer 2

It seems to me that when there are changes going on in a church (new clergy person, new people moving into the community, etc.) this is when people start to feel left out or otherwise hurt by church members.

I am a very quiet, polite, and private person, but always felt accepted and treated fairly at church until one Sunday. They gossiped about me -- a lady who had only recently joined the church got together with the shakers and movers pretty quickly and she instigated the whole onslaught. This is something I did not experience before so I was quite shaken up by it. The church had been my rock before this whole incident. Very few people know what I went through, and it is only recently that I told a trusted, long term friend of over thirty years what went on that Sunday and what transpired after that. (I never told any family members, even my own parents.)

You must understand: When people say they have had a bad experience at church, it is often life shattering. It's often not over some trivial matter. And sometimes it is grounded in fear. Before that happened to me, I can;t say that I was ever so overly fearful of what happened at church. In fact, I felt pretty safe there.

Answer 3

Everyone has had a bad experience at church, since the church is full of human beings, and not all of them believe, and not all of those who believe are mature.

I've been rejected, slandered, hurt, laughed at, shunned, had a female missionary & some church staff make ugly faces at me, gosspied about, etc. So what? I have had the same stuff happen sooner or later at work, school, and everywhere else that I have been. I don't let the jerks stop me from doing what I want to do, or from doing what I think that is right.

I go to church to serve Jesus, and I don't let a jerk or two stop me from doing what I want to.

Answer 4

Never had a bad experience just simply never understood the need to go to church.
Silly really.. Why? Here is the reason.
Back in catholic school I was taught that god is everywhere. OK So then why do I have to go to church? What is wrong with praying at home?

And guess what? I was sent to the principals office for asking that question.

So to me going to church is just another way of keeping people conditioned to think, act and follow their religious leader blindly without questions.

And that is why I am a non-believer/skeptic

Answer 5

Well, the seat was really uncomfortable, and the sermon was boring as hell. But, that's not why I'm an atheist. I'm an atheist because there's no proof that any god exists. And Jesus is just one in a long line of fictional god-men, with some slight variations.

http://www.medmalexperts.com/POCM/index.html
http://mama.indstate.edu/users/nizrael/jesusrefutation.html
http://www.rationalresponders.com/a_silence_that_screams_no_contemporary_historical_accounts_for_jesus
http://www.truthbeknown.com/origins.htm
http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/pcc/pcc09.htm
http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_jcpa3.htm
http://www.harrington-sites.com/motif.htm
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/richard_carrier/resurrection/lecture.html
http://www.geocities.com/paulntobin/virgin.html

Answer 6

I didnt have a bad experience per say I just was angered by the control the church had over its followers. Everyone chants the same things over and over. The sermon is always preaching the word of God is law and that we are all sinners and should be lucky to make it into heaven. It was like a bunch of sheep following each other until they all fall over the cliff.


Marilyn Manson said it best.


I'm not against Jesus I'm against the misuse of him.

Answer 7

I was at a church giving a lecture and question session on Pagan beliefs at the church's request. A Woman stood up and threw a bag of blood at me, screaming "Warlock, Satan, Antichrist."

Answer 8

When I was sixteen my Sunday school teacher beat me up badly in the church hallway...it took four men to pull him off of me....it turns out he was on heavy pills and always very jealous of my family's money. After I got out of hospital...one week later my parents bought me a new car but my nose has never been the same..even after four operations.

Answer 9

I went once to see what goes on there. People were behaving very strangely and doing weird things, and they appeared to be under some form of mass hypnosis. It was a terrifying experience. I'm not sure children should be encouraged to go there.

Answer 10

Yeah...one year at Christmas Eve Midnight Mass some lady brought this really sick baby and I caught its cold and ended up really sick for all of the week before New Years and ended up not being able to go to the Rose Bowl Game. That was a bummer.

Answer 11

Yes, I agree.
If we all try hard enough to leave our common sense at the door we too could find ourselves so utterly brain-washed and swimming in fantasy that we could be like you.
Just remember that some of us have been where you are now, and there is help for you when you wake up to the reality of life without your superhero.