I am a Roman Catholic and we also have mass on Saturday Evenings. Perhaps you should change your medication when you go back to DU.
Many churches offer various forms of services at different times of the week to reach out to various people. It helps to remember some people are caring for parents, children, or friends with handicaps, injuries, or debilitating diseases and may not be able to attend church (or other activities). That is very definition of "Christ-like"! To mock these people is the persecution spoken of in the Bible.
Churches are NOT rest homes for saints. They are hospitals for sinners. I know many people struggling in their personal lives who attend church for the support and the brief respite from the daily grind and pressure of life.
Of course, one does NOT have to attend church to maintain a personal relationship with Christ.
Anyone that lectures people on failing to be in a church on Sunday morning is simply being antagonistic. For the record I know several liberals and conservatives that attend church. "Church going" is not merely a conservative bastion.
What I find amazing is some extreme liberals denounce organized religion to help promote their schemes on society:
- full acceptance of gay/pedophile/beastiality sexual orientation and practices.
- unquestioned abortion on demand by all females old enough to conceive, including minors without parental consent.
- tolerance of anti-social behavior, protected and perpetuated by watchdog organziations like PETA, Amnesty International, ACLU, NOW, Greenpeace, and others. Now, the funny thing is SOME of their agenda I agree with! Harvesting the seal pup furs, canned hunting, exposing REAL torture/gulag governments, violence toward women, sexual harassment, REAL racism - all of these are repugnant to this conservative. But the extremists in those orgs drive their agenda, and thus - I reject most of it!!
- Using the mantra of "embracing diversity" to blame the white man, particularly in the South, for all the ills of the past 150 years. Doesn't diversity include recognizing ALL history and learning from it?
- movement toward full socialist political agenda.
Sorry, but ALL the red states and large portions of the blue states are tired of the whining rhetoric or scathing accusations that passes for honest discussion by the extremists.
This is why the conservatives dominate the political landscape and will do so for probably the next 8-16 years. Note that I said CONSERVATIVE and NOT Republican. There are definitely moderate Democrats who embrace some of the conservative agenda.
So, please continue to make snide remarks and insinuate people are less than Christian because they are not in church on a given Sunday. The great silent majority sees this as insulting, and it is just another check mark in the Red State ledger for 2006, 2008, etc.