Departure From The Truth

[Theland]

I want to go to church, but the chur church next door although C of E has a lovely lady vicar and is involved in Ecumenism. Couldn't touch it with a barge pole.
So what do I do?

[woofgang]

If you don't subscribe to any organised religion, then why do you want to go to a church?

[naomi24]

Theland, //I don't have a religion. Religion is man made and is mans effort to reconcile himself to God.
That is not me.//

What is ‘you’ then? You cling to the word of the bible, you want to join a church, you object to women in the priesthood, you object to churches attempting to build bridges, and yet you claim to have no religion. That, in your own mind, may render your understanding of things otherworldly above and beyond that of other men, but it’s abject nonsense. You’re as hooked on religion as anyone who cleaves to it - and rather more than most.

[Khandro]

naomi; What you say ^^ isn't true at all, many people are religious without going to church, no one was more so than William Blake who had a total disregard for religious institutions of any sort.

[naomi24]

… but nevertheless still clung to the fundamental tenets of organised religion – as does Theland.

[Khandro]

Yet everyone likes to sing in church and elsewhere his 'Jerusalem' (in fact it has be nominated as the national anthem) and admire his fabulous paintings and drawings.

[naomi24]

Why is that relevant to this?

[Khandro]

n. Obvious innit? - deeply religious and didn't go to church, which relates to the OP.

[naomi24]

But the OP wants to go to church .....so not obvious at all.

[Tilly2]

Theland, why do you want to go to church?
What will you get from 'church'?

[melv16]

The only things I get from s church is a crap cup of tea and a chance to meet ugly people with no fashion sense :-)

[Jackdaw33]

LOL @ Melv. How very true.

[Tilly2]

ok, lets discount the tea and the fashion parade. It must be the singing that Theland likes.

[Tilly2]

^ let's^

[Tilly2]

I just knew that I wouldn't get an answer to my question at 09:17!

Don't know why I bother sometimes.

[Theland]

Tilly - don't bother. Just hate to think that this post might infringe on your very busy and interesting life.

[Theland]

By the way, I forgot to thank you for sinking down to my level to even bother to post a comment.
Surely you have been dragged away from matters of great importance in order to muck in with the great unwashed. Tugging my forelock I beg your forgiveness for bringing you down from your ivory tower, the heights of intellectual exclusiveness.
Stick to chatter bank or adverts. Much safer for your delicate demeanour.

[Theland]

I would like to go to church to pray with other bible believing Christians.
Naomi, - you don't have a clue.
I am talking football and you are talking netball.
You just don't get it.
Don't pretend you do.

[naomi24]

^seems to be having a bad night. So much for the oft-lauded inner peace that faith allegedly brings. ;o)

[Tilly2]

Oh dear!

I'm going to need two cups of coffee to get over that.

[naomi24]

Oh good grief! See what you've done now, Theland? Tilly's gone all funny! ;o)