# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/21 "2007-11-27T01:59:22Z")
Every Sunday. Christian Reformed. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/22 "2007-11-27T02:27:45Z")
Probably three times a month. I used to go pretty much every weekend, but I moved to this area to spend more time with my siblings and their families. They live 150 miles away and I work a regular work week, so when I go visit them, I go over the weekend. Then if I’m getting an early start to head back home, I’ll skip church. If not, I’ll go with my sister. If I’m in town, I go to church here. So a couple times a month I attend Methodist services in my town, about once a month I attend UCC services in my sister’s town, and about once a month I skip. I’m a Methodist. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/23 "2007-11-27T02:33:14Z")
Services itself? I think I’ve been once in the past four years. If a church itself counts, then twice. The second time was a fish fry at my mother’s church that I attended at her invitation and so that the minister could meet and possibly convert her heathen son. I just ate my fill and left. It was good fish. ---
**Author:** ![BrknButterfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/439d5e/32.png) [@BrknButterfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrknButterfly)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/24 "2007-11-27T02:46:41Z")
[QUOTE=DigitalC] whenever people die or get married. [/QUOTE] Same here. ---
**Author:** ![Spezza](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@Spezza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spezza)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/25 "2007-11-27T02:50:06Z")
My father is a pastor. I haven’t been to one of his services in… years, definitely years… probably about 9 years. I will be attending one of his services in January, however. And that is only because for the first time ever he will be getting his own church building. (That and the fact that I’ll be married there in less than two years.) Last time I actually went to a church would have been just over a year ago. Girlfriend’s family is Catholic and I suffered through a service to appease her family. Never again, freakin’ Catholics. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/26 "2007-11-27T03:24:31Z")
Weddings, funerals, baptisms or Christmas pageants. Once a year to once every couple of years. I’m agnostic, leaning to atheist. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/27 "2007-11-27T04:14:38Z")
Twice a year, on Easter and Christmas. Actually, Good Friday instead of Easter - it’s a terrifically creepy service. Someone (a religious sort) called me a “flower Christian” once - I only come when there’s an abundance of flowers on the altar. I’m a Lutheran. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/28 "2007-11-27T04:29:34Z")
Every Sunday, and most holy days. Sometimes, I’ll miss one of the lesser holy days, like if I’m too hung over on January 1st to go to the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Mother of God. (Who decided that we absolutely must have a holy day on New Years, even if we don’t really need another one or have anything to celebrate then, anyway?) In case it’s not screamingly obvious by now, I’m Catholic. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/29 "2007-11-27T04:30:37Z")
My Gay Men’s Chorus rehearses every Sunday night, in a church. Aside from that, never. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/30 "2007-11-27T04:33:47Z")
Not being affiliated with any religion whatsoever, my answer is: Never. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/31 "2007-11-27T05:44:39Z")
I quit the Baptist church long ago. I don’t go to any church now unless there’s a funeral or wedding in one. I’m thinking of going to a Quaker meeting. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/32 "2007-11-27T05:50:38Z")
Other than twice for funerals, I haven’t been in a church since the mid-'70s. ---
**Author:** ![Kerrigan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/49beb7/32.png) [@Kerrigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kerrigan)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/33 "2007-11-27T05:59:51Z")
Three times a week. Church of Christ. Due to my night work schedule being very irregular lately, I’ve missed a couple of Sunday and Wednesday evening services this month on account of being asleep. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/34 "2007-11-27T06:05:48Z")
My parents make me go every Christmas. Myself, my sister, and my two brothers are all atheists (as is my mother, incidentally) but my mom is heavily involved in the church because she’s friends with a lot of the woman and I think they want to keep up the appearance that they didn’t raise a bunch of heathens. We had this really intelligent well spoken minister for five years or so and I wouldn’t mind going because I really did enjoy hearing what he had to say. Ever since he left it’s a real drag. Now my siblings and I try to keep busy by looking for spelling mistakes in the bulletin. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/35 "2007-11-27T06:06:08Z")
Only if I’m at my Mom’s. So perhaps once a year. ---
**Author:** ![straykat23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@straykat23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straykat23)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/36 "2007-11-27T06:17:55Z")
Funerals and weddings and occasional services at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco when I’m there for the weekend. I love this place! I took my daughter there for the first time for a Christmas service some years ago. Afterwards she said, “They never mentioned Jesus. How odd.” [Glide Memorial Church](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glide_Memorial_Church) > [@](#): > > Glide Memorial Church is a United Methodist Church in San Francisco, California that opened in 1929. Although conservative until the 1960s, since then it has served as a counter-culture rallying point and has been one of the most prominently liberal churches in the United States. Its contributions to the community have been recognized by such respected figures as Maya Angelou, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Clinton, and Warren Buffett, who contributed the value of auctioned lunch on eBay. > > Since the 1960’s, Glide Church has provided various services for the poor and disenfranchised. Glide serves three meals daily, amounting to over 750,000 free meals a year.[citation needed] The church also provides AIDS testing, mental and primary health care, women’s programs, crisis intervention, an after school program, creative arts and mentoring for youth,literacy classes, computer training, and job training, recovery, free legal services for the homeless, housing with case management, and much more. Occasionally a doper will ask what to do in San Francisco during a short visit and I’ve neglected to advise this experience. It’s awesome! ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/37 "2007-11-27T06:41:37Z")
Maybe once a year to couple of years. Not of my own volition, usually, but it’ll be with family or a friend invites me home for Easter or the like. I’m agnostic leaning Christian. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/38 "2007-11-27T08:54:03Z")
I attend funerals and weddings. Apart from those occasions, not being religious, church (any sort) just isn’t part of my life. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/39 "2007-11-27T09:12:24Z")
We go most weeks. Our church is pretty much the hub of the community here and has very fuzzy, inclusive edges. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859/40 "2007-11-27T14:40:40Z")
Every week on Sunday. Well, almost every week. But it was more or less characteristic that this summer when I missed 3 consecutive weeks at my local church, I attended church with family at their local churches twice. (And skipped church completely the 3rd week.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poll-how-often-do-you-go-to-church/427859.md?page=3)