when you was a kid was you ever made to go to church?

Question

sorry for the grammar I guess its time to find something else to do,Seems like its getting to hard to please on answers.Time for me to stop asking questions it should have been[ were] not [was]

apology accepted The people here on answers voted for me going back to school and getting my ged.After being out of school for 45 years.If you read my profile it reads dump as dirt

Answer 1

When you were a kid, did anyone ever teach you how to use proper grammar?



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EDIT:

Okay, okay. That was a bit harsh and unnecessary. My apologies, Morgan. I am just a stickler for grammar. Being an English major can have it's down sides. {Removing foot from mouth.}

As far as your actual question, I was raised to choose for myself whether or not I wanted to attend church. My parents were not religious, nor did they ever attend church. I had many Catholic friends, and I went to church with them quite often. As I grew older, I realized that I just couldn't accept the things that the church (and religion in general) stood for.

Again, my sincere apologies to Morgan. Apparently I needed a lesson in class and kindness today.

Answer 2

When I started going to church it was my own choice. Where and when were influenced by neighbors and I am thankful for them.

I got active in youth, as an usher and in the choir and enjoyed the activities very much but when I felt the beginnings of the call to preach I turned around and ran just as hard as I could for the next thirty years (I didn't want to be no preacher [I know grammar - it was deliberate]).

Now that I have answered that call (about 17 years ago) I am the happiest I have been in all those years and so is my wife.

Answer 3

Yes, I was made to go to Sunday School as a small child
barely of grade school age. It was expected I go every Sun-
day, and I did without fail. But my parents never did. They
were in opposition to each others' churches. My Dads' mom
was the only church goer in our family in fact. And she may
have had something to do with my starting early. Even tho I
didn't go to the church she associated with.
The only time my parents entered that church, was when
there was a childrens program on the stage where the choir
or a soloist normally performed.
I was there for most of the banquets, and for special
entertainment for kids in the Sunday School dept. I was also
there for vacation bible school during summer. I didn't mind
it, for it gave me something to do in the mornings.
As I grew into my teens I went on special trips with the group, roller skating and other activities. I stopped going to
Sunday School after I was in my sophomore year of highschool and began a relationship. Two years later, I began to go to another church a friend invited me to, during my senior year at another highschool across the city. Then I drifted away from the routine after a few months, when I started dating again and was in another relationship. My
boyfriend was a non practicing, Catholic. And we had a
very turbulent two years, due to our parents opposing us
for our religious beliefs. Eventually I drifted away from the
regular routine on Sundays, and would only go occasionally
during my young adult years.

Answer 4

We were sent on the Sunday School bus from about 3-8th grade then allowed to choose to go or not. I have never seen my parents in a church except for something like a wedding or if we were in a play.
I enjoyed Sunday School but the bus took us home before Church. I think it was good to be exposed to religious education and I enjoyed it. I kept going a couple more years then again when I was older but stopped at about 21 when I decided it wasn't good to go if you weren't a believer.
I would love to go to Church after retirement but you have to pretend to believe. I would enjoy meeting people and having buffets or Church picnics as a social event but not worth faking belief.

Answer 5

Irish Catholic family, 13 years in a Catholic School. Sunday mass with all the school. Lent,-Staions of the Cross every Friday. Knew the Latin Mass backwards and forwards.
Did not way I agreed with it all, and had go arounds with the Nuns on evolution about the 4th Grade.Used to sit way up in the loft area of one church and fuss around, and leave early before Mass was over. Enough was enough already.
Have not been to church in years and don't intend to start again anytime soon. Did not raise my kids in any religion,
as I did not want to force anything on them as I had been. Figured when they grew up, they could pick for themselves if they wanted.

Answer 6

Yes and I loved it. I used to ride my bike to Mass on Sunday and the days of holy obligation, I sang in the choir and was a member of CYO (CAtholic Youth Organization). I attended religious schools until my last 2 years of high school I had wanted to become a nun at one time and join the religious order but my parents forbade it Most of my friends were associated with the church and the CYO

Answer 7

Yes... at least three times a week... Grandmother taught deaf Sunday school and Bible study... Grandfather taught the seniors... I loved his sermons the best! He also ran a program for troubled and abused teens... ran a boy's camp every summer in the mountains... He was the only Christian I've ever meet that not only talked the talk, but, walked the walk... never turned anyone away.. I remember men sleeping in the barn on the ranch, he would feed them stew and sit with his Bible and tell the best bible stories! Remarkable man!

Answer 8

I went to an Episcopal Church with my mother, even though she and my father had me baptized as a Lutheran in infancy. I didn't mind it at all and once entertained thoughts of entering the Episcopal priesthood.
The New York City school system had a program called Released Time Instruction where you could leave school early one day a week and attend religious instruction of your faith. So, I also got involved in that as well. Despite all of that early grounding in the Episcopal Church, I became an adult convert to Catholicism.

Answer 9

As long as you recognize your mistakes - you still belong here with us! Yes, I was forced to go to church. But not for the right reasons. My parents were living in UK and were Jewish and had gone to Israel in the mid to late 30's from Europe (Austria I was told). Then somehow arrived in UK at the end of the 30's. My father's English was not the best, and he looked very Semitic. So my Mother thought that if my siblings and I went to church, we would better fit into the neighborhood! It was not until I was in my mid-teens that I understood that they were still afraid of persecution. And even today in the UK (especially in London) anti-semitism is still rampant. Anyway - that is why this nice Jewish girl went to church! Now I go to Temple - and have since sometime in the 50's.

Answer 10

I guess I was expected to go. I never really though about it . My uncle was Sunday School Superintendent . I just thought it was a part of life. I always thought Sunday was the most boring day of the week !!! I still do !! My uncle drove my school bus too. He showed me to my first grade room the first day of school too. Good thing too because the teacher came straight from the Wizard of Oz Movie and she had a flying monkey !!! lol I don't miss Sunday School but I sure miss my Uncle !!! Thanks for the memory !!! WOW !!!

Answer 11

Yup. Being old now and looking back I can see it was a perfect time for the folks to have their one on one time while us kiddies were in sunday school. Was a pain in the *** at the time though. Didn't do us any harm but sure scared the hell out of us. Fire and brimstone you know... Laugh about it now with the parents.