What do you say, if someone asks if you go to church? (page 2)

crownboy

Funny Outlaw, I love Church's chicken as well . I guess New Yorkers are a secular bunch, because that question rarely comes up. When it does, I say I don't attend and the conversation moves on.

Lady Lee

I generally ask why. For a few years my granddaughter sang in the church at Christmas. So I would go. I was better than going to a JW meeting but I still wouldn't go by myself.

To be honest no one (other than family) has asked me to go.

If you want to go, go. If you don't say thank you, but no. You don't owe anyone an explanation. Simple and to the point. For myself, I get in alot of trouble when I start trying to expain or justify my response.

troubled mind

My friend from work asked me to go to church with her after I quit the KH . After a while I decided to go and check it out ,and I am glad I did because it was just one more thing I use to be afraid of because of lack of real information . I enjoyed my visits ,but it is not something I see myself sticking with or ever joining .

rebel8

"No."

Answer to follow up questions: "I'm afraid I don't discuss that."

Repeat the latter as needed until silence is achieved.

peaches

i just say that i believe in god,,,,but do not go to any particular church....the god is everywhere thing....

no more kool aid

I would go to church for a friends funeral or wedding. But just to go to church, well, I have had enough of that to last a lifetime. NMKA

moshe

I say, "I'm Jewish" and they never ask me again- well, I take that back, one lay preacher at work thought he knew better and asked several times to go to his church. I tried to be aloof, but I realized he wasn't going away. "Why would a Jew want to attend a church", I asked him? -he replied , why not? He was sorry he opened that door.

Palimpsest

I jut say no. If you say it with the right tone, people typically don't ask follow-ups. And even if they do, I've got nothing to hide. Nope, I don't go. :)

mindmelda

I go to a similar church to Outlaw's named KFC. LOL

But, yes, I've gone to other churches and I like Universalist Unitarians best. Only one that supports my almost agnosticism. LOL

I've gone to Methodist, Baptist, Lutheran, Episcopalian, Presbyterian churches. Talked to Ba'Hai's, Mormons, Wiccans, Druids, Pagans, Atheists (I know its not a church! before the atheists jump in and correct me, but it's an interesting counter philosophy to religion) Jews, Muslims...

I enjoy religion as a topic, and comparative religion and myth as an academic subject, so I talk to everyone I can about it.

I've found good friends in many of the different faiths above. I know one of the higher ups in the Ba'Hai faith for instance, and I'm telling you, Witnesses only wish they were as honest and diligent in business as these people are. I was truly impressed by their honesty and peacefulness. They're one of the real pacifist faiths, not Witnesses. They don't teach anyone will be killed in a war started by God and call themselves peaceful!

I found things in nearly all religions and people in all of them that have impressed me. One of the least impressive religions I've encountered, sadly, is the one I was in for 34 years. It only has a few things to recommend it.

They help people clean up their lives in some ways (but for the wrong reasons *sigh*), and they don't actively promote war or racism. However, they're so homophobic and condemnatory of other faiths, that that almost cancels out any pretensions to their claims not to be bigoted.

In case you don't have a dictionary, that's bigotry.

What do you say, if someone asks if you go to church?