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Do you go to Mass anymore?

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  • #32
    Holsten
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,971 ✭✭✭Holsten


    When I'm scared
    I was forced to go when I was little, then we stopped going except for Christmas then I was dragged away from my toys.

    Managed to kick up enough fuss by around 12/13 I never had to go again.

    Happy days! Only go if there is a funeral/wedding.


  • #33
    MickShamrock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭MickShamrock


    When I'm scared
    Never.


  • #34
    bertie4evr
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 871 ✭✭✭bertie4evr


    Once a week or more
    No.The Holy Water would probably burn me.


  • #35
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Once a week or more
    I pay tribute to the god of sleep by having a lie in every sunday

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #36
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    When I'm scared
    No. Stopped when I grew up and kopped onto the two faces of Rome liars and how all religions are full of it.


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  • #37
    Min
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,550 ✭✭✭Min


    Never
    Every week, I enjoy it, apart from the religious side, its very calming and positive for me.


  • #38
    Seloth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,038 ✭✭✭Seloth


    Never
    Ya should have put down Christmas and Easter and thats what allot of people just do.


  • #39
    DublinWriter
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,599 ✭✭✭DublinWriter


    When I'm scared
    I was at a funeral mass this week, the missus is a Prod so I had to spend most of my time giving a whispered commentary to her.

    Funniest bit was when the undertaker accidentally started played 'Spirit in the Sky' from a CD over the PA when the priest began the final prayers.


  • #40
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,585 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Once a week or more
    Am I the only one who gets annoyed by all the Catholic bashing in AH? I have no religious beliefs but couldn't be arsed with the whole atheism **** either as they can be just as "holier-than-thou" as any Church. If people said half the **** about Islam in here as they do about Catholicism then there'd be wide-scale accusations of racism...


  • #41
    Stephentlig
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,114 ✭✭✭Stephentlig


    Never
    OutlawPete wrote: »
    Back in the day I would have got a clatter for lying here on the sofa at this hour on a Sunday.

    Remember one time my dad threw me out the door with a tea strainer in my hand and no shoes on and told me to get to Mass or he'd .. :o

    Did you go much when young? Were you punished if you didn't?

    Or did you bounce of and go to the chippers with money you were given for the collection box :eek:

    Sometimes I do find myself in a church just to light a candle. Don't know why. I'm not religious in the slightest.

    Do believe in the afterlife though.

    I find it peaceful sometimes, especially the chapel in the Dublin airport as I grew up going to mass there.

    So how about you, do you attend mass or go to a church at all?

    Forgot Weddings in the top option in Poll (Modify it if you wish, Mr Moderator)

    I only went when I was young to Sunday masses, later in life I left the religious/spiritual practice, I guess it just faded away really...never really thought about it, then in the summer of 2007 my Dad sent me Rosary beads and a book called Awareness by Fr.Anthony de mello, and I left Scotland in 2008, came home, became a practicing Catholic again, had a wonderful conversion experience, left my songwriting and opted for doing hymns instead.

    Before I was married I went to mass almost every day, went on pilgrimages, and now I'm a little more settled and happy as larry.

    Pax Christi
    Stephen <3


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  • #42
    bleg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,847 ✭✭✭bleg


    When I'm scared
    Collie D wrote: »
    Am I the only one who gets annoyed by all the Catholic bashing in AH? I have no religious beliefs but couldn't be arsed with the whole atheism **** either as they can be just as "holier-than-thou" as any Church. If people said half the **** about Islam in here as they do about Catholicism then there'd be wide-scale accusations of racism...


    There weren't many Muslims in Ireland that raped countless generations of Irish people.

    We're getting over our Catholic hangover, these threads are part of the process.


  • #43
    WesternNight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭WesternNight


    Collie D wrote: »
    Am I the only one who gets annoyed by all the Catholic bashing in AH? I have no religious beliefs but couldn't be arsed with the whole atheism **** either as they can be just as "holier-than-thou" as any Church. If people said half the **** about Islam in here as they do about Catholicism then there'd be wide-scale accusations of racism...

    Racism? Islam is a religion, not a race. Just FYI.

    In any case, I think people here are more qualified (if that's the right word) to discuss/bash/whatever Catholicism, as we're more familiar with it than Islam. No point finding fault with other religions when we have a perfectly good one to find fault with right here.


  • #44
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,585 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Once a week or more
    bleg wrote: »
    There weren't many Muslims in Ireland that raped countless generations of Irish people.

    We're getting over our Catholic hangover, these threads are part of the process.

    I was referring more to the basic belief system of people who do have religion. Posts like "only inferiors go to Mass" are hardly going to right the wrongs of paedophile priests. Just insulting to those who do consider themselves Catholic


  • #45
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,585 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Once a week or more
    WesternNight wrote: »
    Racism? Islam is a religion, not a race. Just FYI.

    Semantics


  • #46
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    When I'm scared
    Collie D wrote: »
    Am I the only one who gets annoyed by all the Catholic bashing in AH? I have no religious beliefs but couldn't be arsed with the whole atheism **** either as they can be just as "holier-than-thou" as any Church. If people said half the **** about Islam in here as they do about Catholicism then there'd be wide-scale accusations of racism...
    :confused: Racism?

    I'm not biased (biliousness), I dislike the lot.


  • #47
    aDeener
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,487 ✭✭✭aDeener


    Kelle 2 wrote: »
    My family went to mass every Sunday without fail, plus we knelt down and said the rosary every night.

    At 17, I began to question the whole thing and didn't want to go to mass, but I was forced to go.

    At 19, I started college in London and felt great freedom - now I could do as I wished and not attend mass was high on my list!

    I continued this pattern of rebellion until I was 38. My husband however attended mass regularly and took my son with him. One day, my son wouldn't go and I told him he had to go (becuase I wanted peace to do the housework for an hour!) - my husband glared at me and said "How can you tell him to go to mass when you don't go yourself"

    So i started going again - and it's not so bad.

    Great to see this woman knows her place ;)


  • #48
    Hank_Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,783 ✭✭✭Hank_Jones


    When I'm scared
    Missed the option for funerals and christenings and picked never instead.

    I get really creeped out by being in mass, feels like some sort of cult experience with everyone chanting the same crap in these odd voices.

    I like to save that sort of thing for being drunk at concerts...


  • #49
    trapsagenius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 410 ✭✭trapsagenius


    Biggins wrote: »
    :confused: Racism?
    Come on, you know what Collie D meant.Lets not be pedantic here.

    Anyway, Collie D, I think you've made a good point and I for one am fairly fed up with the blatant anti-catholicism on this site.Yes, what the paedophile priests did was horrific and indefensible, but let's not forget that the Church has done a lot of good as well, so incessantly slagging it off is just annoying.


  • #50
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Once a week or more
    trapsagenius wrote: »
    Anyway, Collie D, I think you've made a good point and I for one am fairly fed up with the blatant anti-catholicism on this site.Yes, what the paedophile priests did was horrific and indefensible, but let's not forget that the Church has done a lot of good as well, so incessantly slagging it off is just annoying.
    People have every right to criticise the church, and let's face it, there's a lot of ammo. I don't agree with cheap pot shots, but you can't say there shouldn't be anti-Catholicism just because it offends you.

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #51
    trapsagenius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 410 ✭✭trapsagenius


    ScienceNerd wrote: »
    People have every right to criticise the church, and let's face it, there's a lot of ammo. I don't agree with cheap pot shots, but you can't say there shouldn't be anti-Catholicism just because it offends you.

    I'm alright with people criticising the Church, which is perfectly within their rights, and I can obviously see where they're coming from.Its just sometimes the criticisms are too excessive , like that "only inferior idiots go to mass" comment earlier, which is just plain wearisome.And the way some people go on about the Church you'd swear that it had contributed nothing positive to the world and Ireland in its history, which I strongly disagree with.


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  • #52
    WesternNight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,286 ✭✭✭WesternNight


    What did you expect in After Hours?


  • #53
    trapsagenius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 410 ✭✭trapsagenius


    WesternNight wrote: »
    What did you expect in After Hours?
    Touche.


  • #54
    brummytom
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Could do with an "occasionally/once every few weeks" option... we don't go every week, we should but.. well, we don't have any excuse


  • #55
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    This poll seems to be based on the seriously flawed and rather bizzare assumption that everyone on AH is Catholic ?
    trapsagenius wrote: »
    Yes, what the paedophile priests did was horrific and indefensible
    Its not so much the crimes of the individual priests per se which people are criticising the church for but the manner in which the church hierarchy (in Ireland and elsewhere) dealt with it.
    trapsagenius wrote: »
    Its just sometimes the criticisms are too excessive , like that "only inferior idiots go to mass" comment earlier, which is just plain wearisome.

    In fairness I didnt see that particular comment getting much in the way of support/thanks/agreement/endorsment ?


  • #56
    Collie D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,585 ✭✭✭✭Collie D


    Once a week or more
    My point seems to have been misunderstod. I am not in any way defending the Church but rather stating how annoying the constant sniping of anyone with religious beliefs is. There was a thread a couple of weeks ago in Atheism about how we should not tolerate religious. I mean come on...for people who claim not to care about religion they seem to spend a lot of time getting worked up about it


  • #57
    GLaDOS
    Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 23,257 Mod ✭✭✭✭GLaDOS


    Once a week or more
    Collie D wrote: »
    for people who claim not to care about religion they seem to spend a lot of time getting worked up about it
    Eh, atheists don't claim not to care about religion

    Cake, and grief counseling, will be available at the conclusion of the test



  • #58
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Collie D wrote: »
    There was a thread a couple of weeks ago in Atheism about how we should not tolerate religious. I mean come on...for people who claim not to care about religion they seem to spend a lot of time getting worked up about it

    Most people here wouldnt have seen the thread in question and therefore wouldnt really be in a position to comment/judge either way* Unless you care to provide a link...............

    * Other than "Shock horror -Thread critical of religion on atheist board"


  • #59
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    Once a week or more
    Weddings funerals and all that jazz... Rather not be in a church though :)


  • #60
    trapsagenius
    Closed Accounts Posts: 410 ✭✭trapsagenius


    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    Its not so much the crimes of the individual priests per se which people are criticising the church for but the manner in which the church hierarchy (in Ireland and elsewhere) dealt with it.

    That's fair enough.I can completely understand why people criticise the Church-the abuses and reactions by the hierarchy were disgraceful.But like I said, it's just the way some people go on about the Church you'd think it had never done anything good, which I believe is highly unfair.

    Mike 1972 wrote: »

    In fairness I didnt see that particular comment getting much in the way of support/thanks/agreement/endorsment ?

    Again, fair enough but the comment is somewhat representative of some of the snide jibes that we see on the forum.


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  • #61
    Latchy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 21,190 ✭✭✭✭Latchy


    Funerals christenings and weddings are the only time I partake in any church service .


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