Should I be forced to go to Church against my own will?

[Urza]

Now I'm an atheist, after learning heaps of Physics and Chemistry.

That implies that they contradict each other, when in reality they don't.

Nothing can really contradict "I believe in magic."

"this happened for a reason" contradicts "this happened for no reason" pretty well.

And magically there is no contradiction.

See how magic works?

 

[Advi]

Now I'm an atheist, after learning heaps of Physics and Chemistry.

That implies that they contradict each other, when in reality they don't.

Nothing can really contradict "I believe in magic."

"this happened for a reason" contradicts "this happened for no reason" pretty well.

And magically there is no contradiction.

See how magic works?

 

[ProtoKun7]

Now I'm an atheist, after learning heaps of Physics and Chemistry.

That implies that they contradict each other, when in reality they don't.

Nothing can really contradict "I believe in magic."

Something you don't understand you dismiss as magic.
I see how it is.

 

[Urza]

Now I'm an atheist, after learning heaps of Physics and Chemistry.

That implies that they contradict each other, when in reality they don't.

Nothing can really contradict "I believe in magic."

Something you don't understand you dismiss as magic.
I see how it is.

It's like believing that Harry Potter is real. I don't need to definitively prove that there's no invisible magic school over England, do I?

 

[KingVamp]

Spoiler

Now I'm an atheist, after learning heaps of Physics and Chemistry.

That implies that they contradict each other, when in reality they don't.

Nothing can really contradict "I believe in magic."

"this happened for a reason" contradicts "this happened for no reason" pretty well.

And magically there is no contradiction.

See how magic works?

You shouldn't,it wrong/unfair,but at this point you do not really got a choice.

I do not see why you can believe/ have fate at home.

The church itself is just a symbol/object/building/ a word.

Some churches do not even look like churches anymore.

You matter well call your own home a church.

 

[mollekemiel]

you CAN be forced to go against your own WII

 

[Fat D]

As others said, you should not be forced, but thanks to parental authority, you still can. At least unless you can get your father to help you out. Most churches are no closer to any credibly benevolent god than a piece of fried bacon, however. While I consider religion a matter of fiction, I believe everyone in this community knows that you can argue about what stories about something are true in a fictional world, so despite leaning on the atheist side, I have some theological belief, and the idea of any major church being somewhere true to the ideals of Christianity sounds utterly ridiculous to me.

 

[stinkoman]

My mom sometimes does the same thing. "It's Christmas soon, we should go to church. Wouldn't it be so RONERY being an atheist? Man, I don't know how I could trust an atheist since they don't believe in god. LET'S GO TO CHURCH."
I have yet to tell her that I'm atheist.

 

[Recorderdude]

Forcing a child to go to church is the absolute best way to make them hate it and hate you.

Let me tell you a true story about my friend, James. James was possibly the best friend I've ever had. He lived and still lives 2 minutes away from me and we have a TON of interests in common. His parents, however were HUGE churchies, or as we call them, "Bible Thumpers". They made him go to church no matter what. For a while, I was going to his church, and all was going pretty well. However, when Dad and I stopped going to church, his parents refused to let me hang out with him anymore outside of school (and they would have prevented me from hanging out with him IN school if they could have). Over time, James told me he had lost a TON of his good friends this way, and he was left with a lot of "Good Church-Going Christians" that tormented him because of his heavy weight and long hair (seriously, his hair was longer than most girls). Then, one day he finally snapped in the middle of school and yelled in the middle of a history class (at a time when I and a few others were defending evolution from a hoard of hateful "Christians")

"I'M GONNA BLOW UP THIS SCHOOL AND ALL THE CHRISTIANS IN IT!"

It honestly surprised all of us.

He was, of course, immediately expelled from our high school.

Now he does homeschool, like I do (though I left because of bullying). I haven't heard from him since then, but I don't think he likes his parents or his church much anymore.

As for my beliefs, I'm sort of a christian and sort of an atheist. I don't want to waste my time going to church and praising a lord that may or may not exist, but I still want heaven and hell to exist because, let's face it, it would really suck to just stop existing forever when we die. Plus, It'd be great fun to throw some flaming feces at hitler from above in the realm of the pearly gates

 

[dryo]

yeah...well that's convenient,so sorry to tell you but if you want heaven to exist or be in heaven you have to believe in god, if you want to believe in god, you need to go to church and praise for his existence,if you believe in something and do nothing,is the samething as saying " I wanna have a job" to " I'll get the job done"

 

[Recorderdude]

yeah...well that's convenient,so sorry to tell you but if you want heaven to exist or be in heaven you have to believe in god, if you want to believe in god, you need to go to church and praise for his existence,if you believe in something and do nothing,is the samething as saying " I wanna have a job" to " I'll get the job done"

That's like if I said if you want to believe that Sony will lose against Geo, you have to send him money to support that belief. Belief requires no actions be taken.

But I dont wanna get into any of that crap too far. Maybe there's an afterlife, maybe there isn't. All we know for sure is that we only get one life and we shouldn't waste it arguing on the internet.

 

[KingVamp]

yeah...well that's convenient,so sorry to tell you but if you want heaven to exist or be in heaven you have to believe in god, if you want to believe in god, you need to go to church and praise for his existence,if you believe in something and do nothing,is the samething as saying " I wanna have a job" to " I'll get the job done"

Do not believe because you do not want get up Sunday or some day at blank time every time?

You just call all believers who do not go to church liars.

Church is just building. You can do the same amount of praising and believing at home.

It more like working at home or working at somewhere else.

That like saying "I bully people and do bad things , but that fine I go to church."

 

[MelodieOctavia]

Here's YOUR only answer:

No, going to church shouldn't be forced upon you, but you still live under your parent's roof so you need to do what they say.

 

[SubliminalSegue]

I was forced as a kid, but that's just because I lived with my parents. Their rules. There's nothing wrong though with spending an hour a week thinking about something bigger than yourself.

I choose not to as an adult, not because I'm anti-religious, but I don't believe you have to go to Church to have a meaningful relationship with God.

 

[dryo]

that's what we call neo catholicism,god's cool with that.(I guess..)

 

[SubliminalSegue]

that's what we call neo catholicism,god's cool with that.(I guess..)

I hated being a catholic, man. It's so uptight and shit. Methodist, too.

 

[DiscostewSM]

We all have things in life that we don't want to do, but we must do them anyways. This may be a lesson from your parents about that. Being in your parent's house means you go by their rules. If you don't like those rules, you can always move out. Of course, once you are out of your parents house, you can do whatever you want. However, to survive, you'd still have to do things you don't want to do, but that will be on your terms with your decisions.

 

[Dylan]

The best way to make a child an atheist for life is to put them through religiously owned education. There is hardly anything I hate more than the moronic remnants of something that should have faded out already.

 

[Vigilante]

You have 168 hours in a week.In that that 168 hours you only spend 1 hour for church.
In a year,you have 8760 hours.In that 8760 hours you only spend about 48 hours or 2 days of your life for church which is a little time to sacrifice seeing how much time you still have.

Do the math,its all for YOU to decide.

(P.S:The spelling of the church as in the structure isn't suppose to be capitalized.)

 

[emigre]

You have 168 hours in a week.In that that 168 hours you only spend 1 hour for Church.
In a year,you have 8760 hours.In that 8760 hours you only spend about 48 hours or 2 days of your life which is a little time to sacrifice seeing how much time you still have.

Do the math,its all for YOU to decide.

TBF 48 hours at church is 48 hours too many.