Local Churches

[Theland]

What is your attitude to your local church?
Are they a source of division and conflict, or do they serve the local community in any tangible way?
And what about the clergy and the regular worshippers? Do they make an impression on you of compassion and community activism?
Do they do harm?

[Mamyalynne]

Lovely peaceful place packed with memories through the generations.

Very important and supportive without the wider community.

The clergy and the parishioners I have met are caring, compassionate and friendly.


No.

[johnny.5]

I like my local church
It is not a source of division but a focal point for quiet reflection and remembrance
I have no personal view of the clergy or the regular worshipers but each to their own .
there is no such thing as a bad religion

and they do not do harm

[Theland]

Me too. The churchyard full of graves is peaceful and a place to think.

[Mamyalynne]

* excuse the typos, just done eye meds.

'within'

[tonyav]

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4338/37002161966_b4112daa14_b.jpg

Love my local church, But I have to really it's only about one hundred yards away from where I live ( It' s been very close for most of my life )https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4338/37002161966_b4112daa14_b.jpg
Vicar Carl is a lovely guy, lives around two hundred yards away from me.
( only draw back is the bell ringing practice on a Monday evening ).

[vetuste_ennemi]

I have three "local churches" if you include a gurdwara and a masjid (i.e. mosque).

The Catholic church rings a bell on Sunday mornings. The Sikh temple causes nobody any problems. On the odd Friday when there are too many of them you will get some of the faithful attending the mosque parking their cars wherever they like, which might be your or your neighbour's drive.

[tonyav]

Never mind the typo's , Mamya. I knew what you mean't.

[Theland]

I live next door to the church.
We too have bell ringing practice on Monday night.
Love it. Better than, " Alley Akbar" from the tower.

[vetuste_ennemi]

I think somebody raised a thread on the Jonestown massacre in Guyana.

Now we find an innocent abroad posting this:

"there is no such thing as a bad religion".

Is there not? Heard of the Aztecs?

[tonyav]

http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/26/42/264203_cc4f27a2.jpg
Also the memorial for the miners that were killed in the 1872 Pelsall mining disaster is in the church yard ( I lost two ancestors in that disaster ).

[johnny.5]

we should all have a launderettes next to our churches or places of worship

because cleanliness is next to Godliness

[Theland]

Islam not far behind for advocating violence, but that not the purpose of the thread.

[Theland]

Tony - they do preserve our history.

[johnny.5]

Aztecs ?
I was referring to today's modern religions
not the thugeees either

[tonyav]

I think so, Theland ( don't know so much about modern churches though ).

[vetuste_ennemi]

Sorry, Theland. Not the purpose of your post. Understood.

[tonyav]

By the way, I wish I had a pound for every wedding,Christening or funeral that I have attended there. I would be a rich man.

[Theland]

Ei used to attend next door some years ago to the evensong service. They don't have it now. Then I moved house to here, next door, but don't attend.

[Theland]

I used to attend

[tonyav]

Nothing stopping you re attending then, if you feel like it.