Posted on 12/04/2013 2:17:07 PM PST by markomalley
“plus sermons that are more political than biblical”.
I would pass out of my parish priest ever gave a political homily. Ain’t gonna happen. I wish it would.
I’d been avoiding going to church for so long (for some of the same reasons others have stated) she was joking that wasn’t I afraid the Lord would burn me up for being such an un-devout fellow?
Football.
“When Jesus was on the cross why were there more women around then men?”
Excellent point - it was a tragic shame then and it should not be happening now. The women then had nothing to fear, being “women” - the men did. They learned their lesson and died as martyrs for Christ later.
Want it fixed? Stand up, show some testosterone and freak the ladies out. The priest may try to comfort them, but that may just be cover.
Did I miss something?
Is this the “Let’s Quit Then” estrogen thread?
If you’ve already been immasculated, this must seem like therapy.
Why would men want to go to church as women?
“Why don’t as many men go to church as women?”
I swear I read that as ‘Why don’t many men go to church as women.’ Which could easily be the title of an article these days.
Freegards
They’re too busy running half marathons, raising cats, and watching their fantasy football players.
You leave my peanut butter out of this.
I did not leave the Church, the Church left me and I will not be back.
Raising cats?
football
I know. Sometimes it’s hard for them to preach honestly, though, about some of the challenges facing individuals, families and the country without getting political. My pastor manages to do it without explicitly telling people things like how to vote. For example a few weeks ago he preached about a society in the Old Testament that had become thoroughly corrupt and wicked. I think people could connect the dots.
I used to play a game and speculate what people would have done in my old church in Seattle if the senior pastor had said things in a sermon(say the Sun. after 911) that Rev. Wright was saying. I think that some people would probably have gotten up and walked out. Afterwards, I think that people would assume hed had a mental breakdown of some sort and arrange for someone else to pinch-hit for the subsequent sermons. This church was so big that there were 5 services every Sunday, more on Christmas a d Easter. By the next Sunday hed be gone and a delicately worded letter would go out. I’m just guessing. I think I myself would have probably walked out. At my new church in Everett I think somebody would stop him before he finished the sermon. Then he’d be gone by next Sun. a d a delicately worded letter would go out. But it’s so hard to picture. My pastor is a former Navy Chaplain. But Wright was a Marine, I guess. Incidentally, a religion columnist at the Seattle Times came to Wrights defense back in 2008. He compared him to Old Testament prophets. Also I guess he visited that church once and they were really nice to him. Go figure.
were there?
If you're talking pastor as in the role the priest has, then every Christian is supposed to be a priest. (See 1 Corinthians 4:1 and 1 Peter 2.)
Number 7 is very solid, and number 6 is probably valid as well.
That's exactly the point that a youtube guy, TheIgnoredGender, makes.
It is fairly simple, most men even in this world we live in today still want to be men.
Not all but so many Churches has a way ( maybe not deliberately ) of making a man believe it is wrong to be a man.
Also women can put up with a lot more false doctrine than a man can.
And most Churches has at least a little.
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