Do Catholics have most boring churches/ liturgy?

[Aroura]

Geese, just read some of you guys replies. Being a bit cruel, I think.

[chimp3]

I still get the creeps remembering the communion ritual at the catholic church. Of course they could not pass the wafers around and let you feed it to yourself. You had to line up and then assume a submissive posture, open your mouth , and let some boy fucker priest place the damn thing on your tongue. Over 40 years later and it still gives me the willies.

[robvalue]

The churches around here tend to fall into two categories:

Old, small New England.  Dark and drab and dreary passed off as 'character' or 'charm'.
New construction.  Bland and uninspired.  Cookie-cutter, with no personality at all.

Best church I've been in was the one my brother got married in.  It tried to mimic the kind of Catholic churches that are a big deal down in Boston.  The rest have been forgettable to unpleasant.

We have two categories too.

Closed, or closing.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

They have the best priests in dresses. And they love to watch the kids while you're shopping. 

[mcolafson]

OK, frankly I don't know if you can rate how boring church masses are, but I've heard sometimes in documentaries that only Catholics have Marian visions because their mass is so dreadfully boring, that they are so desperate to bring any new even remotely invigorating, that they pilgrim to their neighbor's bathroom's door because they see in it's tree-rings so called virgin Mary.
Other thing I remember is from documentary "Jesus Camp" where that evangelical little girl explains (this is from transcript): God is not in every church, there is such a thing there… it has certain church… they call: "dead churches"… and people there, they sit there like this:
We worship you, God,
we worship you, God.
They sing like 3 songs and they listen to a sermon.

My guess is she was talking about Catholics, am I right? Then she continues: Churches are God likes to go to… Our churches are  jumping up and down, shouting His name…

It seems that other Christian denominations even feel kind of sorry for Catholics because they have boring mass. So which one is most boring? And compared to other religion's masses like Krishnas, Muslims, Satanists... I guess Satanists have most fun.

I was at a Catholic church mass and I liked the music and singing in Latin.
or maybe it was Anglican? it was good.

I was in a Methodist church in Bournemouth, England and I liked its austere interior.
Somehow I like it better than catholic interior.

I was in a Lutheran church and I liked their organ music.
I really like it better than Baptist or any kind of modern protestant music...

Sermons... Some are really good.
But I suppose it depends on the talent and motivation of the preacher.
I knew a preacher, I would go to his sermons every Sunday. But the music, and singing...

Why should Satanists have most fun?
Do you enjoy cutting heads off cats and dogs?
Maybe you should get a job in a slaughterhouse, then.

And why are Jews not in the list?

[Mr Greene]

So if services are so boring, why do people attend?  In spite of the atheist crowd fantasizing about the end of religion, religion remains quite popular.  Religiosity is declining in America, but still, lots of people go to church on Sunday.  There's got to be something in it for them.

There is a disconnection between the American public and the church. Those born before a certain date ('80s-'90s extrapolated) will on average continue to attend church until they die.
Those born after this date will on average not attend church from reaching adulthood.
This pattern will remain and unless something drastic happens the church will enter a terminal decline as the pre-'80s generation approaches life expectancy.
This in turn tells us that church-goers never really question the validity of attending, it's simply a routine with no actual thought applied to the act.

[vorlon13]

My immediate family wasn't catholic, but we had catholic friends and a few relatives. So, very rarely, we had to attend a wedding or a funeral, and a couple times, an actual mass. It was awkward, we never knelt or stood or sang or came forward. Period. One of the few things dad was super strict about. We had a talk before every time we set foot in a catholic church.

Of course, I'd relish being an obvious lump these days, in the profoundly unlikely event I'd go for some reason.

[Paraselene]

I was born and raised Catholic, but I recall very little of my time in church before my family decided to leave it.

[MJ the Skeptical]

Mosques in general are by far the most boring and regressive places of worship with more culturally backwards people than any other religion I've ever heard of.

[Jehanne]

OK, frankly I don't know if you can rate how boring church masses are, but I've heard sometimes in documentaries that only Catholics have Marian visions because their mass is so dreadfully boring, that they are so desperate to bring any new even remotely invigorating, that they pilgrim to their neighbor's bathroom's door because they see in it's tree-rings so called virgin Mary.
Other thing I remember is from documentary "Jesus Camp" where that evangelical little girl explains (this is from transcript): God is not in every church, there is such a thing there… it has certain church… they call: "dead churches"… and people there, they sit there like this:
We worship you, God,
we worship you, God.
They sing like 3 songs and they listen to a sermon.

My guess is she was talking about Catholics, am I right? Then she continues: Churches are God likes to go to… Our churches are  jumping up and down, shouting His name…

It seems that other Christian denominations even feel kind of sorry for Catholics because they have boring mass. So which one is most boring? And compared to other religion's masses like Krishnas, Muslims, Satanists... I guess Satanists have most fun.

No one believes in the Real Presence anymore, except, perhaps, for a few nut-jobs.  The only reason the Catholic Church has influence in today's World is because it did have influence in the past.  Basically, it's become a marriage and burial service.  Pope Francis, as Head Funeral Director, still wants to maintain political influence in the World; that part of it has been much harder for the Church to let go of than it so-called "infallible" teachings.