Posted on 10/23/2011 6:23:05 PM PDT by hiho hiho
I notice the author doesn't try to refute the idea with facts or reasoning but with a typical leftist's response of "ur stoopid".
Even when I was a kid I said ughh and complained...a lot...as an altar boy when I was assigned to serve at them.
Same here. They changed from the Latin Mass when I was 7, and then we got the sign of peace and guitar mass and it touchy feely Jesus showed up and bored us all to death.
What a bunch of dribble---according to a recent survey is where one should stop reading...
The feminizing of Christianity is part of the problem - the other part is the 'liberalization' of Christianity... Some churches feel like they're extensions of the democrat party...
There is also sitting around listen to a pastor beggar the point. Forty minutes is plenty of time to deliver an effective sermon.
Singing “He walks with me” just ain’t the same as “Onward Christian Soldiers” or “The Olde Rugged Cross”.
Then listening to a preacher pretty much deliver a eulogy and say the deceased is going to hell because he didn’t attend that church.
What a bunch of dribble---according to a recent survey is where one should stop reading...
Secularism, Agnosticism. Priest’s and Bishops have had an effect as well.
There were more practicing people 100 years ago in the USof A and Europe than today.
The Church grew almost 7000 % in Africa and the South Pacific in the same period of time.
Personally, the church the author describes is an unbiblical new age church and will never prosper under the hand of almighty God. The church as it should be is laid out in the Epistles of Paul, the apostle to the Gentiles and a female clergy is anathema and is antichrist.
I stick to the independent bible believing churchs and away from the dying and dead mainline cults and denominations.
I found that interesting, but then in the 2nd year Vatican II took hold and it became guitars and poems and folk singing and I thought I was in a Saturday night Episcopal coffee shop.
I’ve never missed a single weekend mass since I was baptized. I’m just programmed to show up for mass but to be honest, when I was younger all i did was scan the congregation for hot chicks until my Mom told me to knock it off.
Then they took away the altar rail, then civilians dispensed communion...it was a huge mistake to be ‘trendy.’
I stopped going to mass when we had two priests in a row who were molesting little boys.
That doesn’t make me hate God. I just don’t like the church.
I'm glad I grew up Catholic. 40 minutes could cover our pastor's entire Mass. I was home less than an hour after I left the house for Mass in the first place.
I'm glad I grew up Catholic. 40 minutes could cover our pastor's entire Mass. I was home less than an hour after I left the house for Mass in the first place.
A lot of why men stay away is that the church is compromised. We teach accomodation, instead of protection.
If the church would quit compromising with the world and would work to protect doctrine, men would return.
We need to have church warriors if we want men to be in the church.
'cuz.
I’ll tell you, as a child, the altar rail, the priest, the songs, the text, is seemed so ... serious.
Then my friend’s mom was giving me communion. She liked porcelain cats. Unserious.
As a youth, it was quite the opposite. My priest liked the ladies and eventually became too “popular”. He was replaced by another priest that sure had “that look” though.
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