Preparedness for when

mardatha

There is no way that any church is going to make me pee on trees in this weather!!

[Deleted User]

Good girl!!! just as a matter of pure interest, would you consider it if it was slightly warmer?

Nargleblast

Well, if blokes can piddle on compost heaps to make the garden grow, anything is possible.

ivyleaf

mardatha wrote: »

Yes Ivyleaf it is a religion but one without any dogma, doesn't tell you how to think and that everything is bad, unlike the rest of them. Absolutely GQ same here - at 12 I remember standing in church thinking that all these grownups are two faced halfwits LOL!

Thank you mar

I'm one of the two faced halfwits We're not all bad!

mardatha

Well Ivy pet, I know yur not a halfwit lol... the ones who truly believe are the spiritual ones. But its an easy thing to get carried away with.. I think I talk to too many Americans over on fb lol. One poor girl is a medium. living in Alabama - and that sounds seriously scary. She has to keep everything so secret and is terrified word will get out.

ALIBOBSY

mardatha wrote: »

I personal view is that all religions are backward and insular. Religion encourages fear and suspicion and to me it's the worst thing that ever happened to the world. Put medicine and physics back hundreds of years for a start. But I know I'll get howled down and possibly burnt at a stake lol

Well even as a christian whose kids attend a church school I still wouldn't howl you down .

But our church is in a village on the edge of a small town and semi rural and there is definately a feeling of it being as much a community thing as a religious thing. There is a food bank run by the church and anyone is welcome to all the events whatever your religion or non religion and as a community we all would be there to help others in the area.

Maybe its a church of england thing we are pretty laid back and live and let live. Sadly I think people with there own agendas will use religion, any religion to justify actions they know are utterly wrong. In particular I feel sometime religion is used to justify what are in fact cultural and misogynistic actions/behaviour.

Ali x

Frugalsod

GreyQueen wrote: »

I shall be booking Weds 4th May as annual leave, so that I can better observe the hob-nob eating tenets of my Jedi faith. Whilst lying on the sofa reading books.

I should watch the historical documents in order but if the weather is nice I might leave that until another day. I am thinking of taking a break but it is tough if you have not mastered how to get your droids past the stormtroopers at passport control and the "These are not the droids you are looking for" hand wave does not work.

GreyQueen

I have just noticed that one of my [STRIKE]fellow inmates [/STRIKE] err, colleagues, has got a mug with storm troopers on it.

I felt a pang of envy.:rotfl:

fuddle

I was turned off religion as a 10 year old. The vicar came to our house days after my dad died. He asked me if I would carry the collection around the church at the funeral. My dad was 39 when he died of cancer. I was too afraid because I knew the church would be full of my dads friends. I didn't go to nis funeral because of that. It didn't take me long after to work out why he wanted me to do it.

What annoys me is "I'm of such and such faith so I don't believe these people should live like this" enter any group that don't fit traditional values but keep themselves to themselves.

And don't get me started on my experience of having my youngest go to an 'excellent' faith school when we first moved. That was an extremely frustrating 8 months for me as a parent while upsetting my daughter upon leaving when she got a place at her local school. Because god wasn't in her life anymore, in every subject etc, she felt that she was no longer protected and that something bad would happen. She struggled with confidence and nightmares for a while. I have what I would call Christian values but don't at all follow a faith. I nave to question how I can have these values while having nagative experiences with religion and the only thing I can come up with is that the psychology of being in a group makes that group protective, wants to push that group forward and dont appreciate outsiders until the outsider conforms.

For me religion doesn't go out to be divisive. It's the people involved that cause problems or have an agenda, as far as I can make out.

[Deleted User]

Anyone a Pastafarian?