(January 20, 2018 at 10:08 am)Whateverist Wrote:(January 20, 2018 at 1:39 am)emjay Wrote: If it is what I think it is, things like that Sunday assembly I just find kind of creepy... it may be parody and/or to make a point... but you wouldn't catch me dead in a place like that... religion can keep church as far as I'm concerned.
I think you just have to look at it as people acculturated into certain forms of socializing looking for the comfort of familiarity. It isn't the substance of theism which draws them, only the forms of assembly. Not my thing at any rate.
In colonial days Sunday Assembly was usually the one time a week women could get off the farms and talk with other women. It was THE break in the week. Some churches encouraged a pitch-in brunch to extend the socializing time. This carried down generation to generation and persisted when urbanization took hold. Remember that at the start of WWII ~50% of Americans lived on farms. The primary powered vehicle back then for farmers was the pickup truck, and "frivolous" trips interfered with work.
