I have made a habit of wearing my vaguely pagan hair barette to church on Sundays. I did it today.
Teenage rebellion for pansies, 101.
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well there are a lot of vaguely pagan things in christianity so I'd say you're right on target.
No wonder half the country defines themselves by their lack of organized religion. If parents force their kids to go to church every week when they clearly don't enjoy it, not going to church once their out of the house will just become their little way of rebelling for the rest of their life. Not that this is a bad thing. I'm just saying if parents want their kids to go to church they need to get them intrigued and then forbid them to do it rather than drag them through the drudgery every week as yet another form of torture and control.
you wouldn't happen to be referring to a hot tamales barette, would you?
im trying to imagine a pagan barette.
^I bought it from a pagan woman, is all.
Anonymous #2, you are wrong. Parents force their children to go to church when they are young for a very good reason, it gives them a religious foundation. Most people go though a phase where they hate going to church and probably will stop going for a while. However later in life when they realize they need religion and believe in god they have a place to go, a church to return to. Even if they don't go to church every sunday they have usually been instilled with a sense of faith.
I agree with the last anon. Even if they stop going to church when they are of age or whatever, at least you provided them with a choice for later on in life, you know?
^ you two sound like you're still believers in the faith.
in my experience: forced to go to church at a younger age provided a strong moral backbone on which i can make decisions. however, there is no longer an 'instilled sense of faith' in me. not at all. falling away from the church almost always includes a loss of faith.
while having been to church gives a good precedent on which to base future decisions about faith and religon if they arise, it by no means means a person has an underlying 'faith' to which they can turn, or that it predisposes one to return to the christian fold.
PAGANS! yeaaah. for life!
meh. i went to church a few times. actually for most of my life up till recently, with a few breaks. I can't say that it stuck, or made me a better person, or really did anything. I kind of wish it had. Christians seem so happy with their faith. But then again, it's so easy to join and yet I choose not too, so maybe i've made my decision.
i think that too many parents have taken advantage of the fact that religion can be a huge control device.
just whip out the "God is always watching" phrase with heavy undertones and you have a six year old with a guilt complex.
when religion is being passed on to children it should be given like a precious gift to the child and God exclusively. God doesn't use parents as middlemen and people have to stop acting like he does.
Faith cant be treated as a parenting tool or technique. thats where too many parents go wrong
i make it a point to wear something not quite church appropriate whenever i go, which sadly is almost every week. i haven't been christian for probably 5 years now. ever since confirmation classes started. actually, i'm a confirmed lutheran, but i only did it because of an unrelated motivating factor.
anyway, i think i might still be religious if i hadn't been forced into it so relentlessly. but you never can tell.
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