and people were talking and singing in a very unenthusiastic, "Our-Father-in-Heaven-we-are-the-Borg-resistance-is-futile-Amen" way.
*giggles* Yeah, that's about the size of it. I've always personally felt uncomfortable at church services because although I feel as if we're reaching out to... the same mystery, the same sense of the divine, I'm being told I HAVE to accept it through a constrained framework of "You must do this and this and not this and otherwise you go to hell." also, there's my whole problem with the idea of revealed doctrine... We have to attend church services sometimes with our mother's family, who are very traditional Irish Catholics, and most of ^us aren't Catholic at all, so we try to keep a straight face for the same reason-- not wanting to offend anyone and all.
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Date: 2003-10-07 02:18 pm (UTC)*giggles* Yeah, that's about the size of it. I've always personally felt uncomfortable at church services because although I feel as if we're reaching out to... the same mystery, the same sense of the divine, I'm being told I HAVE to accept it through a constrained framework of "You must do this and this and not this and otherwise you go to hell." also, there's my whole problem with the idea of revealed doctrine... We have to attend church services sometimes with our mother's family, who are very traditional Irish Catholics, and most of ^us aren't Catholic at all, so we try to keep a straight face for the same reason-- not wanting to offend anyone and all.