What, Me Worry?: For all Christmas and Easter church-goers
This is going to be my shortest article ever. All I want to ask is how many of you are planning on attending “Church” this Easter weekend (coming from an Irish background we still call it Mass.) As I've mentioned before, I did actually attend mass for 18 years before I started to get the courage to tell my mother that there would be no more of that! No easy feat considering that I come from an Irish-Catholic background. We'll just say that people take their religion more seriously there.
For one, Christians actually attend the church of their choice EVERY week, believe it or not. Which brings me to my original point: it took me 18 years to develop from a sheep being dragged to the house of God every week, to someone with a backbone and formed opinions on my place in the universe.
So my question is - and has been for 25 years - what is with those of you who attend mass twice a year during the Christmas and Easter seasons. It's obviously to make yourselves feel better right? Like when the rapture comes, Jesus will still love me and accept me into heaven because I attended “Church” twice a year and pretended to be interested in that business of Christ for an hour.
God is Omniscient, he sees inside your head when you're in the church, and he knows that you're thinking about that girl or guys ass a few pews ahead of you. He knows that you have no idea what is happening when everyone else is standing/kneeling/sitting. He can see that you don't know the prayers being spoken. Just because you wear your fanciest suit (and this is the easiest way to identify a twice a year attendee - people who show up weekly would never put their best suit on every week of their life,) it does not mean that God is fooled.
So my point is this: in my opinion there is only one thing worse than a crazy right wing Evangelical Christian, and that is someone who can't form an opinion either way, but is so scared of there not being an afterlife that they would pretend to believe in something, “just in case” for the rest of their life. Go hang out with the Agnostics, you look ridiculous.
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For one, Christians actually attend the church of their choice EVERY week, believe it or not. Which brings me to my original point: it took me 18 years to develop from a sheep being dragged to the house of God every week, to someone with a backbone and formed opinions on my place in the universe.
So my question is - and has been for 25 years - what is with those of you who attend mass twice a year during the Christmas and Easter seasons. It's obviously to make yourselves feel better right? Like when the rapture comes, Jesus will still love me and accept me into heaven because I attended “Church” twice a year and pretended to be interested in that business of Christ for an hour.
God is Omniscient, he sees inside your head when you're in the church, and he knows that you're thinking about that girl or guys ass a few pews ahead of you. He knows that you have no idea what is happening when everyone else is standing/kneeling/sitting. He can see that you don't know the prayers being spoken. Just because you wear your fanciest suit (and this is the easiest way to identify a twice a year attendee - people who show up weekly would never put their best suit on every week of their life,) it does not mean that God is fooled.
So my point is this: in my opinion there is only one thing worse than a crazy right wing Evangelical Christian, and that is someone who can't form an opinion either way, but is so scared of there not being an afterlife that they would pretend to believe in something, “just in case” for the rest of their life. Go hang out with the Agnostics, you look ridiculous.
Editorial opinions or comments expressed in this online edition of Interrobang newspaper reflect the views of the writer and are not those of the Interrobang or the Fanshawe Student Union. The Interrobang is published weekly by the Fanshawe Student Union at 1001 Fanshawe College Blvd., P.O. Box 7005, London, Ontario, N5Y 5R6 and distributed through the Fanshawe College community. Letters to the editor are welcome. All letters are subject to editing and should be emailed. All letters must be accompanied by contact information. Letters can also be submitted online by clicking here.
