# Poll: How often do you go to church? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 27, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859 "2007-11-27T01:06:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/1 "2007-11-27T01:06:27Z")
Just like the title says: how often do you go? (Advent starting next Sunday has **nothing** to do with this. Honest.) ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/2 "2007-11-27T01:14:28Z")
Never, but I’m an atheist. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/3 "2007-11-27T01:16:00Z")
Once or twice a year, I’m a lapsed Unitarian. Many atheists in our congregation attend more often than I do, **pool**. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/4 "2007-11-27T01:18:07Z")
I go just about every freakin’ Sunday, because I sing in our small-but-mighty choir. On a good day, there are three of us in our section. Sometimes it’s just two. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/5 "2007-11-27T01:18:08Z")
Less than once a year. twicks, Quaker ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/6 "2007-11-27T01:18:19Z")
Pretty much every Sunday. I also have an average of one or more meetings a week there, if that counts. Regards, Shodan ---
**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:** [November 27, 2007, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/7 "2007-11-27T01:21:25Z")
It depends. At least once a week, on Sunday. I’m trying to make it to daily Mass at least a couple or a few times a week, too. So, between one and four. ---
**Author:** ![Ms.Pumpkin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a87d85/32.png) [@Ms.Pumpkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms.Pumpkin)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/8 "2007-11-27T01:21:43Z")
Only when someone in my immediate family dies. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/9 "2007-11-27T01:22:35Z")
Every week. Plus whatever other meetings come up, but those aren’t actual worship services, they’re other things. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/10 "2007-11-27T01:25:55Z")
All Sundays and holy days of obligation. Usually between one and two weekday masses as well. ---
**Author:** ![brendon\_small](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brendon_small/32/17101_2.png) [@brendon\_small](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brendon_small)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/11 "2007-11-27T01:26:55Z")
I go in for weddings, and Christmas plays or whatnot that family children are in (mostly my niece, she is in one every year), but never for much else other than business. (I run websites for a few churches, as well as clean the basement of one after events for a small fee…) Brendon Small ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/12 "2007-11-27T01:27:34Z")
Well, let’s see… In the past two decades I got married in a church, bro-in-law got married in church, cousins funeral was in a church. That makes 5 (three, sir) ---
**Author:** ![Beaucarnea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c0e974/32.png) [@Beaucarnea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beaucarnea)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/13 "2007-11-27T01:30:59Z")
Whenever my friends Julie or my friend Hannah ask me to. I helped with Trunk-or Treat on Halloween, and will likely see a couple of Christmas plays because I adore my friends’ children; and because I love my friends. Closeted atheist, except for here. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/14 "2007-11-27T01:39:45Z")
Once a month at best. I no longer consider myself a practicing Catholic but for some reason I still like to attend Mass every now and then. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/15 "2007-11-27T01:46:02Z")
The wide open spaces are God’s true cathedral, so…not nearly often enough. (But I went last week!) ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/16 "2007-11-27T01:47:35Z")
We plan to go every week we aren’t away but it usually works out to about every other Sunday because of different things that arise. We are Episcopalian. ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/17 "2007-11-27T01:50:01Z")
whenever people die or get married. ---
**Author:** ![nonacetone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nonacetone/32/2819_2.png) [@nonacetone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nonacetone)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/18 "2007-11-27T01:55:08Z")
Maybe three times in the past 21 years. I’m a VERY lapsed Catholic. ---
**Author:** ![Vlad\_Igor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Vlad\_Igor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vlad_Igor)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/19 "2007-11-27T01:56:26Z")
[QUOTE=Shagnasty] We plan to go every week we aren’t away but it usually works out to about every other Sunday because of different things that arise. We are Episcopalian. [/QUOTE] I am too, and I usually make it every Sunday. Having become a 4th Day Cursillisto, I now go twice a week, but only once for worship. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/20 "2007-11-27T01:58:07Z")
Once a week on Sunday, and once a month on the second Tuesday. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859.md?page=2)