re: Why are church people forgiven their sins every Monday-Saturday?

Never understood the whole hipocrite thing... no where in Christianity does it claim to make you a perfect human. We are just beggars showing other beggars where to find the bread.

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The people who go to church are probably more shady than the ones that don't.

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And what's the deal with Brunswick stew?

By doing whatever you want to do six days out of a week, and then magically becoming squeaky clean on Sunday?

That's not going to work if you are going to shove your beliefs down my throat whenever you feel religion convicting you.

The term "hypocrite" comes to mind.

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Unfortunately, these type arguments provide opportunity for people to deflect the fact that a persons eternity is there own personal responsibility. On Judgement day, God isn’t going to care what you thought of church people it’s all going boil down to the big decision you made. It’s not popular to say but it’s the truth. Most people are on a happiness quest not a truth quest. If they don’t like what it says or it doesn’t make them happy they find reasons to combat or disregard.

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Well said, but you can have both. Most people see Christianity as a set of rules, but it's actually the freedom to live as God intended.

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By doing whatever you want to do six days out of a week, and then magically becoming squeaky clean on Sunday?

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Noooo.... after that Sunday you change what you do the next six days. You grow from mistakes and don’t commit them in the future.

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Just some rednecks who went to church on Sunday, but then drank all day and got arrested for meth. They will be back in church on Sunday, just in time for their other meth-head family member to pay bond upon realization that they need to "get things right."

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I don’t know where you’re from, but where I’m from this people don’t go to church.

Because the church part of the spiritual equation is the method some clever folks used back in the day to wrestle control away from we proles.

Real spirituality is to know ones self first and foremost. You don't need a pastor to teach you how to do that, you just need to learn to quiet your mind.

But, since we do still have church, it is mostly used as a social affair near as I can tell.

Hand a Hindu the Bible and he'll tell you it isn't religion, it's legislation.

ETA: It was always the church that perverted the doctrine. From the very begining. They wouldn't do such a thing? Look at what's going on with the Catholic Church these days. Those folks are the founders of Christianity.

Not that there is anything wrong with church goers. Everyone in my family is devout and they're all wonderful people. I'm devout myself. Just in a different way.

But, even Jesus himself was trying to pass on Eastern philosophy to the people of Judea. The lesson about rendering unto Cesar that which is his is him teaching the folks to embrace suffering in this world for the sake of something better later.

That's Buddhism. Most likely, from the age of 12 til whenever he came back (32?) he was off in the East studying in monasteries with monks and yogis. And when he tells people that the kindgom of heaven lies within and through him, he's saying through YOU. Yourself.

Il just leave this here. Have any of you ever faced something horrible and asked God for help ? Il bet every single one of you has. If so, who were you talking to in your head? You weren’t asking yourself to help you. So if you say your not a believer then your lieing to yourself. Everybody believes in God. You just don’t want to be boxed in and live by his rules. I’m far from perfect. But I faced something when my son was 10 weeks old. I found God then. I’m still far from perfect. But I believe.