Forced To Go Church .

[modeller]

What must it be like to be forced to go to church every week and have to profess/practice your faith again and again.? Even if you hate it.
I'm thinking of the Queen , all the royals and to a lesser extent senior MPs.

For some it must be a life sentence. How do they cope ?

[LazyGun]

@Idiosyncracy - Do you not attend any church or place of worship? I thought I had read somewhere that you stated you were JW......

[paddywak]

I was brought up as a RC. Baptism, first communion, confirmation, sunday school, altar boy, the full monty. I told my parents that the day I left school and started work work back in '66 was the day I finished with the church and apart from hatchings, matchings and dispatchings and the occasional sight seeing tour, I've not been in a church since.

[Davethedog]

So there are 304 tory mp's and not one Atheist. Ok then.

[naomi24]

//I thought I had read somewhere that you [Idiosyncracy] stated you were JW...... //

Me too.

[jomifl]

I didn't know there was an atheist party, when did that happen?

[modeller]

og //I have to work five days a week even if i hate it.//
You can get another job , the Queen can't ! She has to hide her true feelings at all times , its her job. I would hate her job , never to be able to openly express an opinion.

[woofgang]

then its a good job you aren't her, not really sure what your point is or if you have one?

[jim360]

As Prince Charles has demonstrated, it's not that the Royal Family isn't allowed to give an opinion. It's just that the Queen has, by and large, chosen not to.

[DSJ]

For many of us it is a pleasure.

[idiosyncrasy]

Modeller//How is someone registered with a church . Is that the same as being baptised ? //
It is very much like the electoral roll. When you get baptised, they put your name on a register. That is how they know how many belong to a denomination.

[idiosyncrasy]

Lazygun & Naomi - I never said that.

[LazyGun]

No? Wonder where i got that idea from then?

[LazyGun]

Now i know why. Your post, the question about cremation, was lifted, virtually word for word, from Watchtower online, and those who have quoted from Watchtower here are almost always JW.

So you appear to have some religious sympathies - not a follower of organised religion then?

[jomifl]

Can I get my name removed online, my parents had me baptised without my permission.

[saxy_jag]

I've heard through a number of documentaries and from a number of people (other Royals included) that Her Majesty has a very strong Christian faith.

Can't be good though if you have to set an example when you really don't believe.

[woofgang]

idiosyncracy, you made that up out of your head....(the bit about being registered when you get baptised

[idiosyncrasy]

Wolfgang@ No I did not make it up. In the church I attended from my christening until my marriage, there was a Book called the Baptismal Roll. All the names of those christened at that church were listed. When my children were christened - in a different church & parish - their names were also listed in that particular church's book.

[idiosyncrasy]

Lazygun@ When I write my articles I have to do a lot of research via the web. There are many sites I use, the Watchtower is one of them. It is not exclusive you know, yourself you use it.
See my response to Baldric
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Society-and-Culture/Religion-and-Spirituality/Question1232943-3.html

[LazyGun]

@Ideosyncracy writing articles for whom? Are you prepared to tell us whether you belong to any organised church ?

[ludwig]

My employers force me to go to church every week under threat of the sack, and I f*kin hate it. What a waste of a Sunday morning.

I keep telling them what a load of old *ollox it all is, but they just keep saying 'look, you wanted to be a priest, so you'll just have to bloody well get on with it'.

Yeah, whatever.