Why are people in a place of worship always so excluding?

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Summer_Twilight
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16 Apr 2017, 9:20 am

Hi:
I was wondering why so many people at places of worship seem to have an easy time connecting while persons who are different always exploited.



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16 Apr 2017, 9:29 am

My experience is contrary to that "always".


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16 Apr 2017, 10:07 am

I have seemed to notice this at just about every congregation that though I get along with people, I seem to hear them making plans to this or that together right in front of me.



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16 Apr 2017, 10:24 am

I'm not religious but I did had some contact with catholic church and I had a very different experience. it was one of the few places I felt genuinely welcomed and people were warm and nice, they where also quite progressivist, I learned too much from them although I didn't engaged in any religious activity (I just used to volunteer at a second hand shop in a church)


maybe I was just lucky?? because I know people who has different experiences. .



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16 Apr 2017, 10:41 am

Oh don't get me wrong, I have had good experiences of them welcoming me and even offering to eat lunch with me and mingle with me during events. I even have no problem attending events planned through the congregation. Really, it;s more the personal things like seeming to find something who wants to ask me to do this or that like:
"Doing a wine tasting" or "Seeing a play." Yet, I seem to hear them making plans with other people to do those things.