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RE: One Thing I Miss About Church is....
September 13, 2015 at 1:48 pm
If I could be bothered to go, I'm sure I'd note differences in tone, decrees, fealty, edicts etc. and it would be joyful unto my heart to contemplate were they wrong about that shit when I was a kid or are they wrong now, or are they wrong always.
Fucking proving God ain't unchanging, eternal, omniscient, perfect, etc. could make for a pretty enjoyable churchy service.
I bet they've updated the fucking hymnals too.
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RE: One Thing I Miss About Church is....
September 13, 2015 at 7:31 pm
(September 13, 2015 at 1:23 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: the choir folks and the fun of ripping through some really kick-ass gospel piano accompaniments with them. Nothing like going out with style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlwtgaQZYDI
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RE: One Thing I Miss About Church is....
September 13, 2015 at 7:49 pm
(September 13, 2015 at 7:31 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: (September 13, 2015 at 1:23 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: the choir folks and the fun of ripping through some really kick-ass gospel piano accompaniments with them. Nothing like going out with style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlwtgaQZYDI
LOL!!! LOVE THIS!!!! Thanks mh! I gotta learn that organ part. Our choir would actually enjoy singing this, . . . ok, now I'm going to go look for the sheet music . . .
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RE: One Thing I Miss About Church is....
September 13, 2015 at 8:05 pm
Only intresting part was looking at all jesus drawings and questioning does he have six, four or no abs.
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RE: One Thing I Miss About Church is....
September 13, 2015 at 8:20 pm
(September 13, 2015 at 7:49 pm)drfuzzy Wrote: (September 13, 2015 at 7:31 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Nothing like going out with style.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlwtgaQZYDI
LOL!!! LOVE THIS!!!! Thanks mh! I gotta learn that organ part. Our choir would actually enjoy singing this, . . . ok, now I'm going to go look for the sheet music . . .
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One Thing I Miss About Church is....
September 13, 2015 at 10:53 pm
The only thing I miss is the money I gave them.
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RE: One Thing I Miss About Church is....
September 13, 2015 at 11:03 pm
I never hated going to church the way some of you seemed to. Honestly, I really liked the church I grew up going to. The building was beautiful, a small, classic brick church and steeple and stained glass windows and statues. The priests were kind (Franciscans), no scandals ever. The Brothers were great with kids, doing magic tricks for us at recess. I remember being excited when I was old enough to receive communion, and singing joyfully, knowing all the correct responses to the calls, and so forth.
Picnics (yes, with awesome church made lady pie), and charity auctions, school plays, etc. All good memories.
I did not become an atheist because I hated church.
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RE: One Thing I Miss About Church is....
September 13, 2015 at 11:08 pm
I didn't become an Atheist because I hated going to church. You can be a theist and not go to church. II didn't enjoy church because it felt like a waste of time. Not just because I don't believe in god now, but because it always felt like a waste of time. Even when I believed. For me, that's what it was. There were better ways to spend my Sunday's, such as sleeping in, and when I got married spending quality time with my husband. Especially when school is in, and I have to work. To me, church always felt like a chore.
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RE: One Thing I Miss About Church is....
September 13, 2015 at 11:10 pm
The best part of going to church was that moment afterwards when you took off your church clothes and realized that at that point in time church was as far away in the future as it could get.
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RE: One Thing I Miss About Church is....
September 13, 2015 at 11:11 pm
(September 13, 2015 at 11:03 pm)Aroura Wrote: I did not become an atheist because I hated church.
Yeah, but who does?
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