Originally posted by: LessThanDan
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Now, if service is super long, I'd find that harder to suck up.
In this chuch, there's a lot more to "suck up" than just three hours of church every sunday.
A big concern I will tell you right now: Tithing. Giving one tenth of what you earn to the church (we usually do this annually, in december). I've been working a lot ever since the beginning of the year, especially with my second job over the summer. Which means I've made quite a bit of money, for someone who's just in high school.
At the end of the year, somehow I don't feel comfortable taking almost a thousand bucks out of my bank account and handing it over to an organization that I don't even like. How do I go about handling
that?
Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
What do you plan on doing outside of this Church though? Do you plan on becoming a Christian or otherwise?
I do not want to belong to any particular faith, let alone an institution. You might call me an agnostic, but then again I personally think that "agnosticism" alone is a vague term and there are different types of it. It's not a question of whether or not I believe in God, but rather: What is God? This is very subjective depending on how one actually defines god. In this sense, I do believe in God, however I don't personify God as a tall old dude with a white robe and flowing beard, communicating with us from an alternate plane of existence. In this case one may consider God as simply the force that triggered the existence of our universe, which is not necessarily the omniscient, personified version of god that we see in greek or roman mythology for example (and even today).
I'm probably going into a totally different subject completely here, but maybe I've given you the gist of it.