Anybody been to church lately?

[Godless Wonder]

So today, I'm sitting around with a couple of coworkers, and one of these guys asks the other if anybody's been to church lately. (He'd mentioned church once before on another occasion, and I thought that I'd more or less defused him, but here he is asking again.)

Part of me is thinking "Oh, great, don't tell me this guy's another religious nutjob." And part of me is thinking, "Hmm, could be fun debating this guy a little bit."

So, anyway, I said, "No, never."

He said, "never?"

I said, "No, I'm an atheist."

He says, "Oh, I think you might like this church."

I said, "I doubt it."

So, then it finally comes out that "church" is these two guys little euphemism for a local strip club. Heh. Don't I feel silly.

[Dingfod]

That's kind of like back in the 1950s or 1960s when the old nickname for a bottle opener was "church key".

[Socratoad]

That's kind of like back in the 1950s or 1960s when the old nickname for a bottle opener was "church key".

The term has changed? :eek: I guess I do'nt get out much :chin:

[Dingfod]

That's kind of like back in the 1950s or 1960s when the old nickname for a bottle opener was "church key".

The term has changed? :eek: I guess I do'nt get out much :chin:Hell, these days people don't even know what a bottle opener is, let alone that it's called a church key. Beer bottles have screw-off caps and soda pop comes in poptab cans or plastic bottles, no need for an opener.

[Socratoad]

OH ya, twist caps ..... geez my senility is showing.

Ya know when I was in the air force there was one guy who was always handle to have around even though he never had a hell of a lot to add to any conversation, but he could snap off beer bottle caps with his teeth faster than most people could with a church key.

[Dingfod]

Anyway, to answer to thread title: No, I haven't been to church lately. I took my daughter Roxy to the local Freewill Baptist church on Palm Sunday a few years ago. I grew up Baptist and I came away thinking "These people are weird." For one thing, not only did they have a choir, they had a band, not just guitars and drums, but brass and woodwinds as well. Make a joyful cacophony isn't what the babble says. Then there was the foot washing thing... WTF, over?

As for Godless Wonder's kind of church, the closest I've come to one of those in the past few years was when I went out clubbing with some coworkers and ended up at Bad Girls, a Coyote Ugly type place, a few months back, June, I guess it was. They have what I'll call clothed strippers, they gyrate in much the same fashion as the nekkid ones, but don't take their clothes off. But... last Saturday night at Oktoberfest Tulsa, there was a few boobies being flashed here and there. Gotta love the drunk chicks.

[SharonDee]

I'm struggling to remember which kind of church I went to last.

I went with my sister and her husband to their new Baptist church.
I went with my husband to Deja Vu.

I just wish I could remember which one I did most recently. It's been a while for both of them.
:thinkup:

[Goliath]

The only reason that I will ever set foot inside a church is for the funeral or wedding of someone for whom I care enough about to enter a church.

[Socratoad]

The only reason that I will ever set foot inside a church is for the funeral or wedding of someone for whom I care enough about to enter a church.

I understand and respect your point of view, however I need not ever enter a church again as I made a decision about twenty years ago to stop attending funerals, or even having one.

[beyelzu]

The only reason that I will ever set foot inside a church is for the funeral or wedding of someone for whom I care enough about to enter a church.

I understand and respect your point of view, however I need not ever enter a church again as I made a decision about twenty years ago to stop attending funerals, or even having one.
I have often wondered if I even want to have a funeral myself. I think it would kind of be cool, becuase then I could have someone say, "grady always said he wouldnt step foot in a church so long as he lived. "

[Dingfod]

It's only a building... with seating for hundreds. Big whoop.

What was it Life's Little Instruction Book said?Never join a church that has cushions on the pews. I always supposed the author meant their priorities were in the wrong place, emphasizing comfort rather than helping the poor or something like that. I am disgusted and at the same time awed by some of the palaces built for worship.

[Socratoad]

It's only a building... with seating for hundreds. Big whoop.

What was it Life's Little Instruction Book said?Never join a church that has cushions on the pews. I always supposed the author meant their priorities were in the wrong place, emphasizing comfort rather than helping the poor or something like that. I am disgusted and at the same time awed by some of the palaces built for worship.

Years ago while spending some time in southern Ireland I heard a local expression that the people had given so much to build cathedrals that every time it rained they had to run from their houses into the churches in order to keep dry..

[HelenM]

I've never been to GW's type of 'church'. (It doesn't interest me)

I'm at not-a-euphemism-church almost every Sunday and many Wednesday evenings too and whenever the orchestra rehearses. And some Fridays sorting out orchestra music since I'm "orchestra librarian". (IOW I'm a volunteer assistant to the music secretary)

Helen

[HelenM]

It's only a building... with seating for hundreds. Big whoop.

What was it Life's Little Instruction Book said?Never join a church that has cushions on the pews. I always supposed the author meant their priorities were in the wrong place, emphasizing comfort rather than helping the poor or something like that.

Mine has some but I don't think they count because they aren't very comfortable :D

Helen

[Shake]

Only if Easter counts as "lately". No, wait a minute ... I had to go again for my nephew's baptism some time later. I don't remember exactly when that was, but my back was still killing me, so it was around the same time.

But I think my parents have given up on me bringing my son to Sunday School (the wife had done it before, but she works weekends now).

Oh yeah, and at Easter, I wore my II t-shirt (http://www.infidels.org/infidels/products/shirt.shtml) under a nice button-down shirt! Tee hee!

[dave_a]

Last time I was at church was a few months ago for a friend's wedding.

It was a magnificent place, genuinely breathtaking. It was Holy Hill Shrine (http://www.holyhill.com/). Can't help but be awed by the architecture and view at the place.

[Socratoad]

Last time I was at church was a few months ago for a friend's wedding.

It was a magnificent place, genuinely breathtaking. It was Holy Hill Shrine (http://www.holyhill.com/). Can't help but be awed by the architecture and view at the place.

Beautiful shrine, and I love the chant,

The problem with all such edifices is my perception of same. I've been in so many beautiful shrines, cathedrals, mosques, temples, etc on several different continents, and yet I cannot help but think each time I enjoy the architecture, the workmanship etc exactly the same as I felt when toured the pyramids ..... at what cost :(


However that's just my own personal quirk. Thanks dantonac its a beauty

[Petra]

In London, there was something of an ex-pat institution called the church. Every Sunday, at some large venue in Tottenham Court Rd, dozens and dozens of Kiwis and Aussies would get together for cheap and abundant beer and drunken shagging.

I never went, though. The last thing I wanted to do in London was hang out at some boozy Kiwi/Aussie beerfest. They're such uncouth events. Truly horrible.

[Dingfod]

I've heard of The Church nightclub in Denver, but when I was looking for it, I found there's one in Adelaide (http://www.thebackpacker.net/worldbars/398_adelaide_worldbars.htm) .

Honey, I've got to go to the church tonight, don't wait up for me.