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going to catholic mass later today with a friend as he's going through a tough time - i've never been inside a catholic church before, and i'm exploring christianity. is there anything i need to bear in mind - attire wise, practice wise?? what should i do as a non christian there? i'd like to be as respectful as possible :)
 
I'm going to try and explain this without powerleveling too much but maybe somebody can either relate or help me out with my situation. Throughout my whole life, I've been subjected to a somewhat religious upbringing but it died out after it was pretty clear I didn't care for it. Through my teenage years, I've went from being an angsty atheist to an agnostic by the time I became an adult.

As I get older and I yearn for the day I am able to have a family and a successful career, I've naturally started moving toward God and Jesus Christ. I don't want to head dive into it, but I've been praying more, trying to speak to God, and being more thankful for the shit going on in my life. I am not perfect, and I've made plenty of mistakes in my life but I think I'll be okay if I have some type of morals to abide by.

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Osama Bin Laden said:
I'm going to try and explain this without powerleveling too much but maybe somebody can either relate or help me out with my situation. Throughout my whole life, I've been subjected to a somewhat religious upbringing but it died out after it was pretty clear I didn't care for it. Through my teenage years, I've went from being an angsty atheist to an agnostic by the time I became an adult.

As I get older and I yearn for the day I am able to have a family and a successful career, I've naturally started moving toward God and Jesus Christ. I don't want to head dive into it, but I've been praying more, trying to speak to God, and being more thankful for the shit going on in my life. I am not perfect, and I've made plenty of mistakes in my life but I think I'll be okay if I have some type of morals to abide by.

Thank you for coming to my Tedx Talk and God bless you all.
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I've had a similar experience where I was brought up in a religious household, with usual activities like saying your prayers every night before bed, going to the church on Sundays and so on. I also drifted away from my Christian upbringing in my teenage years, at one point completely denouncing it and looking into the religion that was prominent in my homeland before Christianity took over. This dissonance lasted quite a few years until at some point I came to a realization that chasing these fringe religions, even if they feel more right or correct in some way, all that would end up achieving is me feeling even more disconnected and alienated from my close ones, whom I don't have many left of to begin with.

What I'm getting at is that it feels like the wrong choice to go against the will of those who raised you -- your family's ancestral history, in a way -- as the common religion of your relatives is just one of the many things that make up the bond between you and your close ones who are still here, not to mention those who have already passed away. One should embrace it as it's just as much a part of you as is the name given to you at birth.

I should really start going to church again...
 
So... I don't know if this is really the place for me to post this, but I want to get some things of my chest.

Much like @Osama Bin Laden above, I was raised in a hyper-religious family but gradually fell out of it as I got older. I still try and respect the faith when I can, but... I just haven't really felt anything in a while, you know? Part of it is that, at the risk of sounding like a Redditor, I've had some issues with said family; for instance, my mother's used the religion for some... questionable decisions in the past, and openly referring to herself and others as "brainwashed" is not helping. The other, bigger art of it is just how everything's been going; world's been going downhill for quite a while, and I just find it difficult to hold onto anything these days. Hometown's been in a downward spiral, and while I'm hoping the next four years manage to really fix some stuff - Trump's been making good progress - I'm more inclined to prepare for the worst. Doesn't help that I've been struggling to find a job that I like that isn't temporary.

On a more "personal" scale, I've been questioning my writing; I was wanting to incorporate a lot of biblical motifs in it, but I was wondering if parts would be seen as "blasphemous", in some way? One was a sci-fi story with a mutant for the protagonist; without getting into details, I was considering a dragonlike design, but my (probably overly) paranoid ass wonders if it would be too "demonic". There were a couple of other design ideas that were giving me pause as well, and... I wasn't really too sure where to go for advice.
 
Scream Aim Fire said:
So... I don't know if this is really the place for me to post this, but I want to get some things of my chest.

Much like @Osama Bin Laden above, I was raised in a hyper-religious family but gradually fell out of it as I got older. I still try and respect the faith when I can, but... I just haven't really felt anything in a while, you know? Part of it is that, at the risk of sounding like a Redditor, I've had some issues with said family; for instance, my mother's used the religion for some... questionable decisions in the past, and openly referring to herself and others as "brainwashed" is not helping. The other, bigger art of it is just how everything's been going; world's been going downhill for quite a while, and I just find it difficult to hold onto anything these days. Hometown's been in a downward spiral, and while I'm hoping the next four years manage to really fix some stuff - Trump's been making good progress - I'm more inclined to prepare for the worst. Doesn't help that I've been struggling to find a job that I like that isn't temporary.

On a more "personal" scale, I've been questioning my writing; I was wanting to incorporate a lot of biblical motifs in it, but I was wondering if parts would be seen as "blasphemous", in some way? One was a sci-fi story with a mutant for the protagonist; without getting into details, I was considering a dragonlike design, but my (probably overly) paranoid ass wonders if it would be too "demonic". There were a couple of other design ideas that were giving me pause as well, and... I wasn't really too sure where to go for advice.
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I think it should be fine, it's fictional character designs after all.
 
This seems like one of the more active threads, I'd appreciate some advice on how to approach going to church when I didn't grow up religious and denomination infighting disgusts me and is the number one reason why I've struggled devoting myself to Christianity
I really want to go, just don't know how I should
 
Brenda Holiday said:
This seems like one of the more active threads, I'd appreciate some advice on how to approach going to church when I didn't grow up religious and denomination infighting disgusts me and is the number one reason why I've struggled devoting myself to Christianity
I really want to go, just don't know how I should
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From my experience when I was a lot younger, you could go to church and people are pretty welcoming of strangers. Wife and I are going to start taking our kids to church because we feel we all need a little change in our lives. Plus it would be good for our kids.

We decided to try out a few different churches and see what we like.
 
He lives, and so shall we
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