Some years ago a friend who is married to an Episcopalian minister asked me if I was a church goer. With a laugh, I replied that I'm a heathen. She deadpanned that there are a lot of those in their congregation. (She's a good person.) One thing that gets to me is hypocrisy - from any quarter really. But it seems particularly crazy-making from so-called Christians.
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What confuses me is the day, Sunday! The Lord didn't exactly go, day one done, I shall call it Monday, or did he? so why Sunday? why not Monday? I am not too keen on Mondays.
ShafqatAyaz
Level 2
Apr 8, 2018
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I think a lot of people who go to church every week do it because it makes them believe they are good people. It's less about spirituality and more about personal validation and patting themselves on their backs.
carlyhorton
Level 7
Apr 8, 2018
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I've known a lot of people who would say they can't do anything on sunday because it's the lords day and it must be kept holy. If you wanted to find them on this holy day, you would find them at the local bar shooting pool, playing poker and drinking. They really kept the day holy.
EricJones
Level 8
Apr 7, 2018
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i pretty much loathe people who say they "don't work on sunday"
@SeeCanU meh, I don't usually work on sundays. I do need some time off.
@engineer_in_nj lol... i didn't mean i loathe people who don't work 7 days a week. everybody needs time off but occasionally i need help on sunday. i meant that one who refuses to work on sunday no matter how much they worked during the week or what days they have off.
I never understood how a day could be holy. Even as a credulous kid, I imagined that if there were a god, he'd be out in the universe somewhere amidst all the galaxies and stars and planets. From up there, what does "Sunday" even mean? What does "Sunday" look like from outer space? What significance does a 7 day week even have outside our social constructs? Doesn't make sense.
I find it disturbing how most religious people think, and most are total hypocrites!
ScienceBill72
Level 7
Apr 7, 2018
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Why would a heathen go to church?
LeighShelton
Level 8
Apr 7, 2018
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why do people who hate each other stay married? Why do people go to jobs that they hate? Why do people stay in areas that they don't want to live in?
I don't know why people stay together who are married, to be honest, and the other 2 are about money so I say again why would a heathen go to church?
Because said heathen thinks it's the "respectable" thing to do. However, in reality, the person is a hypocrite and a long way from, what some people would describe as, christian values.
Because said heathen thinks it's the "respectable" thing to do. However, in reality, the person is a hypocrite and a long way from, what some people would describe as, christian values.
oh, I get it going for a family for a funeral, wedding etc. I don't get going just anyway.
Where is the hypocrisy? What am I missing?
Druvius
Level 8
Apr 7, 2018
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I think it's the people the friend is referring to who go to church, but don't act christian in their daily lives?
Yes. My friend was trying to indicate that a lot of people who attend their church couldn't really be classified as enacting Christian beliefs. They just pretend to because that's the "respectable" thing to do.
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