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Has anyone had a problem with going to church if you grew up in one? Being interested?

Well, I don't believe in many of the things in the religion my parents had and I grew up in, and I don't go to church anymore, but I think there are a lot of people that could say that, AS and NT. I wasn't that interested when I did have to go, though I liked parts of it.

Do you mean that the service is boring, or you don't believe in it, or something else?

Like in what way?

I was raised as a Christian (Lutheran). I studied it for a while, even took RCIA classes (which are actually Catholic) before finally coming to terms with the fact that I just did not and could not believe any of that sh*t. I mean, no offense to those who do, but I couldn't. So in that respect, I had trouble going to church. But then I also had trouble for a while not having a set of beliefs. It's a complicated thing.

I have never been religious, and thankfully my parents have never pushed me to try to become religious. I attended Sunday School when I was little, but that was really more to keep me occupied for a few hours so that my mum could have a break, haha.

My mind works in such a blindly logical way that I simply could never be religious and rely purely on faith.

However, I do have some very odd personal beliefs that entirely contradict that, which in turn makes me a blatant hypocrite. Hmm...

I'd have a lot of trouble keeping my attention on the sermon, that's about the only difficulty I ever had.

Hmm...for some reason, I could never close my eyes and fold my hands for prayer. I don't know why...if I had to fake it in front of grandparents, I would only close the eye they could see.

I never sang hymns, but that's because I'm too embarassed to sing in front of people.

Ha ha...biggest problem I used to have with church was having to wear uncomfortable church clothes Thank goodness for the casual services.

My family is religious and I grew up in the Christian church.

My mind would wonder alot during services (looking for patterns on the wooden cealing of the massive building, etc). Mainly alot of it didn't make sense to me. I couldn't understand why we had to learn the names of people who lived 2000 yrs ago on the other side of the planet. Why people had to act so different from other times just because they're in church.

In my teens I became religious on a personal level, involved in the church and prayed obsessively about my problems. In my twenties I realised that it has made no change to my life and I started to question whether I have been brainwashed.

I understand the concept of religion and why people go to church but I also think it can be dangerous to the mind.

I attend the Congregation of YHWH, and love it. I am the only autistic person there, but I am treated just like everyone else. We meet in a member's home, and the congregation is like my second family. We don't consider our beliefs a religion but rather a way of life. One thing that helps make the congregation suitable to an autie's mind is the fact that this congregation has dispensed with the non biblical traditions carried on by most organized religion.

I help to Co-run a house church down in Bristol, UK. and i feel the same as cyberscan...

what makes me laugh is people who go for all the 'tradition' without stopping to consider what Jesus ACTUALLY said...

the scary thing is how very few people actually live and act how Jesus said to... or even bother (and im talking Christians here)

im not perfect, but i aim to follow as i am best able his example.

i think its a matter of free will, up to you what you do, all id say is that you owe it to yourself to really look into the truth of the Gospel yourself, get back to basics and see for yourself how much of what we call christianity today differs from the actual call of Christ...

it may be controversial, but i would say that if to be christian is to follow the actual teachings of Jesus, then the majority of people who 'go to church' are not christian... FYI.... the Church is the body of christ, not a building anyways.

if anyone has problems with that i say, then PM me... i dont want flame wars kicking off on the forums

or even better meet up with me in Bristol and let me show you what i mean

As a kid, my parents had us going to church every Sunday, but now, we don't really go to church that much. I never really got excited to go each Sunday. It was always a rush to get everyone in and out of the shower and to wear your best clothes. I never really cared much for the service, I found most of them boring seeing how I was just a kid and couldn't understand. The people there were the worst part. They realize I'm different than a normal acting person. I see them all the time but don't know any of their names. There's always a greeter in front of the narthex, usually some old lady. You've got the one who will give everyone a hug but you. One asked my father instead of me, "Is he up for a hug?" and she gives me a hug that lasts less than a second. I was constantly made fun of by one particular old man who would poke fun at shyness, trying to get me to join everything a young person would do, and laughing at my expression. Then there was Sunday school. I used to like learning about biblical things, but later as a teenager the classes became a joke. Everyone would rather talk about wrestling or R-rated movies than the Bible and make fun of me in between. I haven't been to church for a few months now, but maybe things will be different if I went back. I do consider religion a big part of my life, mostly because someone like me needs to believe there will be better things to come with enough belief in God sooner or later.

I'm a proud Catholic. I enjoy my religion a lot, though I admit it's hard for me to go to church sometimes.

The voices both from singing and preaching really irritated my eyes and ears. My eyes are so sensitive that sound makes them water. I'm a christian but I've never really got into service and rarely paid attention when I was younger. I still go every so often and the eye/ear sensitivity has dropped but my mind still wanders.

Perhaps my AS has steered me to a more fundamentalist wing of our faith than my parents believed in. I have a hard time with "gray areas". Either you adhere to the doctrine or you don't, hence the draw to fundamentalists like Falwell, Dobson, etc.

I've disliked it. Lacklustre, impersonal and cold.

I don't because I don't believe. Really there are very few true believers, only converts in my opinion are. You were born into it, forced to go by your parents. if you were raised by a different religion family you'd be that religion.
I was raised Catholic and its the worst. Its all story's(lies) most of them are Jewish story's. Nearly everything in the Bible is false.
Things Catholics are wrong
-The earth is older than 12,000 years
-Adam and Eve never happened:Due to genetics constant inbreeding causes genetic mutations an weaknesses
-Noah not real: No geological evidence, and the inbreeding
-King Herod died at the lastest 3 B.C.
-No historical evidence Jesus existed
If the Bible is wrong about all this, and much more, why would any of it be true?

Islam doesn't hold up. Muhammad wanted to be in religious hierarchy denied then Gabriel came down to him and told him all this stuff.

I don't know enough of the other religions so they could easily be true.

I'm agnostic.

LAst time I want to church was for a Baptist Prayer "Brunch", where I helped my mom and grandmother. Rarely go to church, am Agnostic, etc.

I'd rather go to a Unitarian Church, went to their pre-Xmas sermons once.

I agree 100%. I was raised in a very religious Episcopalian family. I went to church every Sunday for my whole life, went to Sunday School, went to Youth Group, read most of the Bible, sang in the choir, etc. I did none of this by choice, and I alternated between extreme resentment of being told what to believe to genuine interest and appreciation.

I certainly found that there is a big difference between the actual teachings of Christ and the ways in which Christianity is commonly practiced. It may sound crazy, but the values I got from actually reading the Bible caused me to turn away from Christianity and organized religion in general. That's just me. If you can somehow reconcile the two, I respect that.