[Serious] What would you want in a church

[Aliza]

Thats like asking me how I would like food I do not eat.

It really isn't.  Tack is asking what you'd want/not want in a church, not in a church you'd attend.  Houses of worship are a fact of life, and - like it or not - we all need to deal with their impact on society. You're not (so far as I'm aware) a member of your government, but you surely have opinions as to what governments should or should not do.

It's actually a brilliant question.

Boru

Sorry, Brian, but it more or less is like asking how I'd like food that I don't eat. I don't care how you prepare bacon or ham because I'm not going to eat it. I can't even stand the smell of it. Having a discussion about how I'd like it prepared, presumably to see if I'd be willing to try it under different conditions, is almost like suggesting that my distaste for bacon is somehow invalid; that it can be fixed and I can be won over.

The primary reason that I don't like Christianity is because of Jesus. Jesus and bacon are extremely distasteful to me. If the Jesus concept and all the Christian trappings like the entire Christian bible, Christmas, Easter, the cross, and all of the parts of the code of morality that I find to be horrendous were excised, then I could be persuaded to take a look at it. Much the same, if you were to replace bacon with some kind of vegan alternative, and then you also throw out all the pots and pans that once cooked bacon, and then for added measure you threw out the vegan bacon and replaced that with a kale salad, you'd have my attention. But then, it isn't bacon anymore because it's a delicious and nutritious kale salad. Anything even remotely connected to bacon (or Jesus) is intolerable to me.

But it's cool if you like bacon.