To me church services are a kind of hell. I almost walked out of my own mother's funeral.
If you would've walked into my old church as an atheist, you would have walked right with even more conviction to atheism. All of the "talking in tongues" that the Pentecostals love.
 OnlyAGhost
                                                
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                                                June 12, 2020
                                            
                                                
                                                    OnlyAGhost
                                                
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                                                June 12, 2020                                            
                                        If going to church during a pandemic will get more of them to their heaven then who am I too protest?
 Surfpirate
                                                
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                                                June 11, 2020
                                            
                                                
                                                    Surfpirate
                                                
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                                        Hey, this Sky Daddy of theirs must be better than any Superhero, he can see through walls, roofs, anything at all.
It's a wonder that Marvel Comics haven't replaced all their other Superheroes with the Christian God isn't it?
 Triphid
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020
                                            
                                                
                                                    Triphid
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020                                            
                                        Too far fetched for Marvel Comics
@Paul_Clamberer Yep, but still not too far fetched for Hollywood (perhaps better to be called Holy-wood imo sometimes though) they seem to turn out bible based movies even these days.
What ever the f***  he has been drinking/smoking I want none of it.
Hey, I can speak fairly well in at least 4 different languages, not including the English I was taught from childhood btw, and I reckon that I could easily create at  least 3 more nonsensical languages as  well if I tried, so does that make me a 'Believer?'
 Triphid
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020
                                            
                                                
                                                    Triphid
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020                                            
                                        Ah!!!
Just let them have their rapture, after all it is all on them!!!
 of-the-mountain
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020
                                            
                                                
                                                    of-the-mountain
                                                
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                                        It is a sad comment on the human species that there are mature adults who blindly accept that sort of hogwash.
 anglophone
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020
                                            
                                                
                                                    anglophone
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020                                            
                                        Gutten Tag mein freund, wie gehts?
@Triphid Sorry, my German is terrible. To answer your question: irascibly. And yourself?
@anglophone Ich bin gut, danke.
I seem to recall church was an hour or so of dozing gently on an uncomfortable bench, with my ex nudging me when it was time to stand up and sing. I don't know as I would want to go to heaven if that were what it was like.
Usually had a chicken dinner afterwards, though. I would be down for visiting the Heaven of Chicken Dinners now and then.
 Paul4747
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020
                                            
                                                
                                                    Paul4747
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020                                            
                                        Yeah, right! Gibberish is gibberish, is gibberish!
 BirdMan1
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020
                                            
                                                
                                                    BirdMan1
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020                                            
                                        Dask, gerfubble sut gerfubble umt mia sudtenble patarc dou nesrec.
LOL, buggered if I know what I wrote but at least I can now say I can speak in 'tongues,' LOL.
@BirdMan1 There was actually 1 time when I was ever as drunk/drunker than a Lord ( as the saying goes) and that was at our Year Breakup Party.
I walked home at around 2.30 in the morning, well tried to walk that is,  with a bottle of Scotch under one arm, a bottle of Vodka in my pocket and drinking, trying to drink, a 26 fluid ounce bottle of Beer at the same time.
I woke up in the morning to find myself sharing the kennel with the family dog who looked quite unimpressed btw, and to be told, harshly, that I had 'orally' re-painted my mother's favourite plants.
But we had no female or male students with those names at the party though, I do remember, though, having to scrub very hard to remove a band of very bright pink lipstick, the fave colour of my then girlfriend, Sandra, from a certain part of male genitalia but can't remember how it got there though.
During the free era, as part of my work duties I escorted a service user to church on Sundays. Now, several things, it confirms my atheism, the coffee in heaven must be good, but my Tassimo is better, the food there seems to mostly cheap ASDA/Walmart donuts, sexy dressed ladies playing on their phones and horror of horrors, bloody country music!
Hmm, maybe heaven and hell is the same place, but but being a believer it's good! 
 Sofabeast
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020
                                            
                                                
                                                    Sofabeast
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020                                            
                                        Struth m8, I walk past any church and you can hear it rumble and see it shake....LOL.
@Sofabeast Oh yeah, we are all sinners, just as some rampant Lunatic with a cardboard sign yelled out to me yesterday morning while I was walking back from the Service Station after getting fresh fuel for my chainsaw.
At the top of his voice he was shouting to everyone either walking or driving past him " Repent ye Sinners."
There were about 4 or 5 people walking along shaking their heads and another bloke was just filling up his car when the Lonney-tune yelled, I kind of pretended that I was hard of hearing and and shouted back to him " What's that mate, you want me to come to Dinner, no probs, what time?"
I think everyone in ear-shot started laughing as loud as they could when they heard what I said.
If you have to attend a service, and get asked where you've been. Tell them you have a demon plug now, which helps you stay free of evil!  Describe to them, in great detail . . . and they'll leave you alone from now on!     
 Observer-Effect
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020
                                            
                                                
                                                    Observer-Effect
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020                                            
                                        Having Jesus on your plug increases the power!
If church is a fore-taste (whatever the hell that word is), heaven is the most boring reward ever. Ask the old pastor man what good is an afterlife as a slave?
 Nealw23
                                                
                                                Level 4
                                                June 10, 2020
                                            
                                                
                                                    Nealw23
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020                                            
                                        Yep.
I've had to stop attending funerals.
I can't take the bullshit.
I will never be "converted".
 KKGator
                                                
                                                Level 9
                                                June 10, 2020
                                            
                                                
                                                    KKGator
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020                                            
                                        Yep, they've got 2 chances of converting this little black duck,  i.e. S.F.A. ( Sweet Fuck All ) and B.A. ( Bugger All).
Spend eternity on my knees singing the Praises of a Bloody Mass Murdering, Egomaniacal, Misogynistic, Dictatorial, Psychopathic Arse-hole, no way.
Problem is religion is about selling a product - their unrealistic and unproven message about immortality. In the end many clergy people do this as a source of income. I would be curious to see this particular pastors income. Ministers should be obligated as a condition of their 501 (c ) (3) rating to have to provide the leaders income. Every non-profit group I have belonged has to make a filing of their financial statement.
 JackPedigo
                                                
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                                                June 10, 2020
                                            
                                                
                                                    JackPedigo
                                                
                                                Level 9
                                                June 10, 2020