Those of you who know me know that I "have a relationship with God" but do not currently attend church. It has always been my belief that you needent not attend in order to be worthy. You live your life in a way in which you think (or assume) is good and moral and all that happy horseshit. I consider myself a Christian, more specifically a Methodist. I agree with most of the stuff in the bible, but of course I am refering to the way I interpret it. I guess there-in lies part of the problem.
The other half of the problem concerns my boys. Holden is 4 and Greyson is 3. I have to find a church that teaches them the basics, is clean, friendly and understands the "boys will be boys" method of how we are rasing our boys. *Lightbulb* That gives me an idea for tomorrow's blog. The World needs to know my concept on raising boys!!...I digress, anyway, I have yet to find a church that suits us on both aspects.
Let me tell you about our expriences. The first church we went to seemed very old school. This was both good and bad. Good because no one seemed to notice we were new because either they didn't give a rat's ass because they were old or they just plain didn't notice because their eyesight was shot- again- because they were old. The preacher didn't seem pushy, didn't try to be too funny and actually made good interpretations in our eyes.
However, the younger with children generation was totally missing so I doubt they even had Sunday School services for the boys. Secondly, they seemed to be completely lacking in the central air and heating department. No joke- people were fanning themselves. It reminded me of the old church scenes from movies like The Color Purple and The Scarlet Letter. Maybe letting your temperature rise nearly to the point of heat exhaustion makes them feel closer to God. Call me spoiled but God gave us the brains to invent A/C and I think we should use it!!
One of the next churches also seemed nice at first. The service was great, the people were very nice, and they worships under normal man-controlled temperature. They were even totally renovating the children's area. Hallelujah! Of course this was all short lived when the pastor and his wife decided to drop by our fricken house, unannounced and at 8 am on a Saturday!! I don't know about y'all but that is some weird shit. We never went back.
The next church we went to I have to explain with a list. That many things freaked me out.
1. The pastor kept talking out the poor Chinese and how they are going to hell because they are buddhist.
2. The entire congregation actually laughed at this point he made
3. He also talked about the day he got saved and how he smoked copius amount of weed and then went and got "saved".
4. Then he went on to say that he was so excited to be in Jesus' club that he went home and held a shot gun to his roommate's head and told him to get saved as well.
5. He talked about how "dirty" fornicators are and how they should beg the lord for forgiveness.
I could go on and on but you get the point. By the time we left I felt dirty and wanted to shower. I am not sure about anyone else but I wanna leave church feeling new and fresh- or something to that effect. I, instead felt like I needed to jump off a bridge before I contaminated the world any further with my sins.
The last church we tried was okay- but it was huge. There was also a lot of music going on. The pastor was okay, too. The kid's area was awesome, very secure and organized. They even rotatd rooms in order to keep the kids entertained. Downsides, were that checking the kids into the kid's program was time consuming, it was very crowded and worst of all the service itself took an 1 1/2 hrs. That is just too long to be honest. I have better things to do...like fornicate. Yeah, I am going to hell for that one.
This has been our grand search for a church- and honestly I'm still perplexed as to why religion turns so many people off....?
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