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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,154
    Pray's Jebus! :)

    I go to church every Christmas time, Easter time, Special Name Day's (I'm Greek Orthodox) or huge celebrations! As for Sunday service, I'll probably attend once every month, sometimes once every 2 month's at the most!

    I do my prayer's every morning, lunch, supper & night! He know's above what I do, my job profession, times I can't be there Sunday. I work in the ceramic tile & marble/granite/slate business! I work hard for the money! And I work alot on the weekends. It's the best time cause not many trades people are on the job sites. That's where I come in and finish up the installation!
  • small town beck
    small town beck Posts: 6,691
    I drank from Eddie's wine bottle once and that is the closest thing I have ever had to communion... actually for me that probably is just like communion :p


    I am more of a spiritual sort. :)

    I usually go to the Christmas carol sing along at my gran's church on Christmas Eve. It is one evening out of my year and I spend it with my family. There is no sermon just singing and some readings.
  • arq
    arq Posts: 8,101
    itsevobaby wrote:
    The last time I went to church was 2006....They opened with Release

    Amen!
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  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,154
    Say, what PJ song/hymn will be sweet to play during Church service?

    Like the Simpson's - In the garden of Eden cover!

    http://www.myvideo.de/watch/2408506/The_Simpsons_In_the_garden_of_eden
  • LloydChristmas
    LloydChristmas Posts: 224
    I havent went to church for about 15 years...I consider myself a recovering Catholic.
  • dpmay
    dpmay Posts: 643
    P34RL J4MM3R wrote:
    If you are looking for a great book that explains this whole Christian thing, I recommend "The Reason for God" by Timothy Keller. The way he lays out everything logically and passionately is amazing.

    keller's book is OK, but i think NT wright's 'simply christian' is better.

    and they're basically both just moderizations of CS lewis' 'mere christianity' which comes highly recommended from this christian, liberal PJ fan...
  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    I'd go to church but I'm really not comfortable bursting into flames. \m/
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  • mavi
    mavi Posts: 941
    Gonzo1977 wrote:
    I believe that the bible exists

    Haha, this applies to me as well :D

    Now seriously, I believe in human beings and the power we have to be kind and considerate. And I believe in the power of music.
    "He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once" R. Browning
  • Yellow Bedwetter
    Yellow Bedwetter NYC Posts: 2,832
    Big Ed wrote:
    While watching Imagine in Cornice again last night, and seeing some of the religious imagery (when Boom was playing the organ in the chapel), I wondered how many hard core pj fans attended church regularly.

    I realize it has nothing to do with anything, but I wondered if I was in the minority.
    I go to a Baptist Church in the South weekly - I'm White & I voted for Obama, so I figure I'm pretty odd anyway.

    i did until college...goin to mass this Sunday actually for the first time in a while
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  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    Religious Pearl Jam fans put the fun into fundamentalist dogma.
    1/12/1879, 4/8/1156, 2/6/1977, who gives a shit, ...
  • violetpsyche
    violetpsyche Posts: 122
    P34RL J4MM3R wrote:
    If you are looking for a great book that explains this whole Christian thing, I recommend "The Reason for God" by Timothy Keller. The way he lays out everything logically and passionately is amazing.

    There is no place for logic or objective reasoning in religion. Belief in God is irrational and illogical because there is no way to objectively measure and prove either the existence or non-existence of a higher being/power/whatever. I have complete respect for people's individual belief or faith but it should be recognised as such and words like 'logic' and 'reason' should be set aside. I do recognise that faith is an incredibly powerful emotional force and is very important to many people.
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,154
    Songburst wrote:
    dogma.

    Dogma you say? I love that movie!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BEZaPN8gUY
  • T C H
    T C H Posts: 85
    I go to church almost every Sunday.

    Can I just ask that we acknowledge the false antithesis of 'spirituality' to 'church'.

    I love the church and being a part of it, and I still very much a spiritual person (for want of a better term - if people understood what I was on about I'd say 'embodied person of faith')
    I've got a Gibson without a case, but I can't get that even tanned look on my face...
  • HatredThrownDown
    HatredThrownDown Posts: 292
    i just got home from bible study!
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  • G Force
    G Force Posts: 1,393
    itsevobaby wrote:
    The last time I went to church was 2006....They opened with Release

    Halleluya!
  • _
    _ Posts: 6,657
    SomethingCreative wrote:
    word...we should start a myspace group!

    Haha! A myspace group called White Christians Who Voted for Obama or Love Pearl Jam?? :D

    I don't have a myspace account though. :(
  • demetrios
    demetrios Posts: 97,154
    scb wrote:
    Haha! A myspace group called White Christians Who Voted for Obama or Love Pearl Jam?? :D

    I don't have a myspace account though. :(

    I do! Sign me up! :)

    http://www.myspace.com/demetriospj
  • EquallyWorthless
    EquallyWorthless Posts: 3,993
    You go ahead and pray if you think it helps.
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  • Jesika537
    Jesika537 Posts: 301
    I am a white Catholic who goes to church regularly and voted for Obama...
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  • drummerboy_73
    drummerboy_73 Las Vegas, NV Posts: 2,011
    I went to a few different churches as a kid, mostly raised as a Catholic - but I don't consider myself "religious" anymore. I still maintain some spiritual beliefs based on my own personal experiences, not literal perceptions of what was written by some guy 2000 years ago and translated 10 times over. I guess I'm more of an agnostic - I believe in more possibilities than impossibilities.

    My wife is from Japan, and although not religious, follows some of the teachings of Buddha. But even Buddhism in modern day Japan is more of a cultural following than a religious one (community, karma, nature, etc.) If anything, I think the Native Americans had a pretty good system of respect for nature and the journey their spirit takes after death.

    I do find it kind of interesting that there are so many religions out there today - even the dozens of "spin-off" branches of Christianity that have popped up in the last few decades. I remember when I was in the military, there were code numbers used to identify our religion on some of our personnel records. I was looking up the codes one day and there were close to 80 just for Christianity, and almost 200 in all! I remember thinking to myself "Which one of these religions is true?! I mean, they can't all be right!" And for any one religion to make a claim that it is the right one and have an outward aggression towards other beliefs is pretty damn arrogant to me. I also find it unnerving that there are countries and cultures where belief or non-belief in a religion can get you killed.

    I'm all for religious freedom though. In fact, I support the freedom to practice and express your belief in school or in a government facility if you choose - as long as it isn't ENDORSED by a government institution. If you want to sit down next to me in a cafeteria in a government building and say grace before chowing down, I say go for it! After all, this nation was founded on a Constitution that grants us freedom of religious choice - not from public exposure to any religion at all. To prohibit or infringe on someone else's belief's because they differ from our own is wrong.

    I have friends of different religious beliefs - even some hardcore athiest friends, and in a way, I repsect them more, because they are good and decent people without a set of guidelines telling them to have to be, or the threat of an eternal punishment if they aren't.
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