# Did you attend church today? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 12, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505 "2010-09-12T14:31:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/21 "2010-09-12T17:06:05Z")
Yep. Started at 11, ended at 12. The homily was 15 excruciating minutes long (our priest is a _horrible_ and enthusiastic speaker). We need to man up and go back to our old church, which will unfortunately take two different buses to get to (no car), while hauling the toddler and the baby. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![C3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/c3/32/3108_2.png) [@C3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C3)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/22 "2010-09-12T17:07:35Z")
We went, but I missed the service because today was the Fall orientation for YRE (Youth Religious Education) and my husband and I went with our kids to that. They did a tour of their classrooms, learned about special events for the coming year, and got popsicles. My husband and I signed up for some volunteer work. The service started at 10:30 and was entitled “Depression as a Spiritual Journey”. I’m assuming it was about living with depression. Our services are generally about an hour and a bit. We’re UUs. ---
**Author:** ![LegsAkimbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f1d935/32.png) [@LegsAkimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LegsAkimbo)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/23 "2010-09-12T17:09:10Z")
Hahahahahaha! No. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/24 "2010-09-12T17:12:12Z")
Yeah, right. If I attempted to enter a church, local dogs would start howling, the wind would pick up, and Something Bad would happen. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/25 "2010-09-12T17:13:53Z")
Actually, I was invited to attend a local LDS church today by a friend of mine. I didn’t go. Might some other time, though. I’ll consider it a modern mythology lecture. ---
**Author:** ![Peeta\_Mellark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc8723/32.png) [@Peeta\_Mellark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peeta_Mellark)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/26 "2010-09-12T17:17:51Z")
> [@WhyNot](#): > > I didn’t go to church this today, but I will be holding Circle here later. See, I finally got an apartment (!), and today is Moving Day, to be followed by a House Blessing. So the topic of the “sermon” will be Making a Space Your Own With The Help Of Family and Friends. 😃 Congratulations! I did not go. ---
**Author:** ![Ruken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f475e1/32.png) [@Ruken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruken)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/27 "2010-09-12T17:22:52Z")
10:15-11:15 We don’t do sermons. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/28 "2010-09-12T17:29:34Z")
No. Although I was in a big Catholic church a few years ago for my grandfather-inlaw’s funeral. During a prayer I looked around and of the thirty people there four or five were looking around like me. We did mental atheist high-fives. I think that’s enough church for awhile. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/29 "2010-09-12T17:42:13Z")
Nope. Played World of Warcraft instead. Much more productive. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/30 "2010-09-12T17:47:49Z")
No, I did not. Got out of the habit a long long time ago. Are there any religious bodies anywhere that venerate the Creation rather than fairylands of their own imagining? Like a Green church, a church of Earth, or something? I suppose that would be worth joining. > [@Ruken](#): > > 10:15-11:15 > We don’t do sermons. Friends? > [@LegsAkimbo](#): > > Hahahahahaha! > > No. This was my first thought of how I would answer. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/31 "2010-09-12T18:35:41Z")
Yes. Had to be there at ten for choir warm-ups, and then church started promptly at 10:30 (we are back to normal hours now) and was over precisely at 11:30, followed by a coffee hour. There was a baptism, and a Children’s sermon, and a bit of a change-up in the normal order of worship as we try out some new things. The choir only sang service music because the bell choir performed. The regular sermon was about “Joy in Heaven” and was based on the parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin. The “Bears on a Mission” were introduced, and many people took teddy bears home to give to someone in need of comfort…these are recycled teddy bears that sit in the pews with a note tied to them, encouraging their adoption for anyone who needs one, or to give to someone outside the church in need of some cheering up. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/32 "2010-09-12T18:58:01Z")
Yes. Service started at 11:00 am. Ended about 12:15. Sermon was “Live the Questions, Love the Questions.” We also had the annual Water Communion as this was the first day of the new church year. ---
**Author:** ![meenie7](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7993a0/32.png) [@meenie7](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meenie7)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/33 "2010-09-12T19:04:59Z")
I did indeed. 🙂 My church does three meetings in a row. The part that most people would think of as “church” lasted from 10 to 11 a.m., followed by Sunday School from 11 to noon and Relief Society (women’s group) meeting from 12 to 1 p.m. We don’t have “sermons” so to speak, but three speakers each week – one youth speaker and two adults. The theme for the talks this month is family, so the talks were about the family as a spiritual unit, which is a big deal in the LDS church. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/34 "2010-09-12T19:05:23Z")
10:30 to 11:30 for me. The subject was substance. (As in, Faith is the substance of things hoped for…) ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/35 "2010-09-12T19:07:10Z")
Yes. Mass was from 11:00 to 12:15 or so. Homily (sermon) was 10 minutes. Like the other Catholics, our Gospel reading was the lost sheep/coin parable. Basic message was that Christ loved us so much that even if all other 7 billion people on the planet were upright, righteous people, Christ would still choose to come here, suffer and die, just for me. StG ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/36 "2010-09-12T19:12:24Z")
Got up, started breakfast, prayed I wouldn’t brown the omelet: Prayer answered; there is a god. Painted out the new laundry room addition and prayed I wouldn’t get any on my shorts: Prayer not answered, god doesn’t exist. Considered mowing the lawn, decided I was feeling too lazy: no god needed for the creation of excuses. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/37 "2010-09-12T20:23:18Z")
Yup. 10:00 to 11:30, the sermon was on repentance and acceptance of human frailty (the pastor was very, very pointed in denouncing the Quran-burning nutjob), and there was a barbecue-corn roast thing afterwards for everybody. It was nice. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/38 "2010-09-12T20:34:41Z")
Yes. 10:00-11:00. THe sermon was by a guest from the synod, who is assisting us in our transformation. It was about the ninety-nine sheep and the one lost coin out of ten. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/39 "2010-09-12T21:00:03Z")
No. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2010, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-you-attend-church-today/553505/40 "2010-09-12T21:04:50Z")
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