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« on: February 08, 2016, 12:54:21 PM »

I'm a Catholic so I have been to Catholic mass.

I've also observed a Jewish service as well.


Never been to any other 'Christian' masses and I would assume they are quite anarchic. Likewise, I have never been to an Islamic or any of the other eastern religions events.
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« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2016, 12:56:09 PM »

I attended plenty of Socialist Alternative meetings a few years ago.
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« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2016, 01:05:31 PM »

I've been to Roman Catholic, Greek Orthodox, Lutheran, and Episcopalian masses, as well as a couple of touchy-feely, interdenominational megachurch services replete with loud rock bands, scantily-clad girls, coffee, and scones.  I've also attended a methodist service and a few fire-and-brimstone calvinist-type services, including Pentecostal and Baptist.   I've been to a Jewish temple as well.

I've been to several Buddhist and Dao temples, and lit the incense and put a yuan in the cup and bowed my head and burned my fingers, but I'm not sure those count as "services" since it's a walk-in type event.  Similarly, I've been in a mosque, removed my shoes, and watched as some devotees bowed and prayed, but it wasn't during one of the big prayer times so it probably doesn't count as a service either.  I also had lunch with the Krishnas a few times in college.  It was vegetarian, but it was free, and all I had to do for it was listen to their spiel and chant some mantras.


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« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2016, 01:06:19 PM »

I've been to plenty of Methodist services and far more Catholic masses. For one offs, I've been to a) Saddleback Church in OC, b) an Episcopalian service with my grandparents, and c) a wedding in a Lutheran church. That's about it.
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« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2016, 01:09:12 PM »

Oh, almost forgot.  I also went to a Church of Christ church, where everybody was black except for me.  I'm not a bigot, but I couldn't help notice that I was the only white guy in the house.  I actually didn't know it was a "black" church till I got inside.  It was obvious that they were as surprised to see me as I was.  They were really, really welcoming though.  Put me at ease.
 
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« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2016, 01:32:04 PM »

I am going to the synagogue on a weekly basis (but sometimes more, sometimes less).

I have once been to a service in a mosque, with my high school class. When I was very young, my paternal grandparents, who are very religious Catholics, once took me to their church, without my parents giving them permission for that... which was immediately the last time I slept over at their house Smiley (though I'm not sure if I in fact attended the service as well)
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« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2016, 01:35:34 PM »

When I was very young, my paternal grandparents, who are very religious Catholics, once took me to their church, without my parents giving them permission for that... which was immediately the last time I slept over at their house Smiley (though I'm not sure if I in fact attended the service as well)


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« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2016, 01:38:25 PM »

Oh, almost forgot.  I also went to a Church of Christ church, where everybody was black except for me.  I'm not a bigot, but I couldn't help notice that I was the only white guy in the house.  I actually didn't know it was a "black" church till I got inside.  It was obvious that they were as surprised to see me as I was.  They were really, really welcoming though.  Put me at ease.
  
And it was actually kind of fun too wasn't it?  Black churches > White churches

I've been to a million SoBaptist services, a handful of Church of Christ, Methodist and Presbyterian.  I've been in a bunch of Catholic buildings, but only for one service/wedding.....and you guys need to hurry that sh**t up.  So.Baptist and Methodist weddings take like 20 minutes, tops.  Catholics, at least in my experience and talking to others, take at least an hour.  There is no reason for that.  I've been in a Synagogue, but never for anything.
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« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2016, 03:27:27 PM »

I don't think I have been to anything other than Catholic mass.
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« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2016, 03:35:45 PM »

Besides the obvious, Catholic mass a few times, a few Reform-Jewish services, and maybe a Presbyterian one too.
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« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2016, 03:38:33 PM »

I don't think I have been to anything other than Catholic mass.
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« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2016, 04:42:03 PM »

I've been to many United Methodist and Episcopal services, for obvious reasons.  I know when my family was churchshopping in 2000 we went to many denominations' services, including Lutheran churches, Presbyterian churches, and a UU church, though can't remember exactly which ones.  I've also been to one or two conservative, nondenominational services with hand waving, to Catholic wedding and funeral masses (although never a "normal" service), and to two Quaker services (one with just 6 people, including myself!).

I can't remember ever attending a service of another faith, however, unless a bar mitzvah counts (not just the party, but the service proper).  I do want to.  I know a guy who's a cantor at a Reform congregation in Alexandria, so I might try to go with him sometime.
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« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2016, 04:42:27 PM »

Catholic, Episcopal, Methodist, and Baptist services. I went to an Orthodox service in Alaska also. I have been to a couple of synagogues, but I am not up on my Judaism so I don't know the sects. I went to 2 Sunni and 1 Shiite service when I went through North Africa. Also went to a Buddhist service in San Fran. Just looking at it and it's a little ironic for an atheist to go to all of these services lol.
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« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2016, 04:46:42 PM »

I've been on Catholic mass of both ordinary and extraordinary form of the Roman Rite.

I also want very much to participate in orthodox mass, but I am lazy and had no motivation to go for any.
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« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2016, 06:21:32 PM »

I've been to Church of Christ my whole life.

I accidentally went to a Catholic Church, that was odd for me.

I went to a Mormon Church once with my brother, I didn't think it was as weird as the Catholic one.
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« Reply #15 on: February 08, 2016, 07:22:05 PM »

I was raised as a Unitarian Universalist.
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« Reply #16 on: February 08, 2016, 10:54:51 PM »

Catholic Mass (boring as hell)
Lutheran Mass (boring as hell)
Baptist Service (awesome)
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« Reply #17 on: February 08, 2016, 10:56:12 PM »

Lutheran
Catholic
Baptist
Evangelical Free Church
Vineyard Movement
Emergent

And an interdenominational church on the Standing Rock Reservation.
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« Reply #18 on: February 08, 2016, 10:59:05 PM »

Catholic, Methodist, and probably one other type of mainstream protestant.
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« Reply #19 on: February 09, 2016, 12:21:39 AM »

Catholic mass, and will never step foot in anything else.  That is a sin.
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« Reply #20 on: February 09, 2016, 11:01:04 AM »

Catholic, Lutheran--both Missouri and ECLA (ECLA let women be pastors), Methodist, Disciples of Christ and Baptist (white and Korean).  In high school I attended a wake at an African-American church (don't remember what denomination) which had the music and sermonizing that one might have only seen in the movies.

In college I took a Mysticism class that included attending Buddhist, Hindu and Hare Krishna services.
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« Reply #21 on: February 09, 2016, 11:33:37 AM »

I grew up in a Pentecostal church, but now I go to a contemporary Southern Baptist church that basically functions as nondenominational. 
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« Reply #22 on: February 09, 2016, 11:46:23 AM »

Catholic
Presbyterian
Methodist
Unitarian
Episcopalian
Quaker
Pagan
Liberal Jewish
Sikh
Muslim
Buddhist
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« Reply #23 on: February 09, 2016, 11:49:15 AM »

Methodist, Congregationalist (before merger), Unitarian, Catholic, Reform Jewish, Episcopalian, Presbyterian, United Church of Christ, Lutheran, Church of England, and Greek Orthodox. Not bad for a Godless one, no? Now that I am in the Hudson Valley, I need to attend a Dutch Reformed church. And there is a Mosque I block away, and I might as well start building my connections with the Bangladeshi community. I have already started. Smiley Oh, I also need to go to a black church, that is really into the "spirit" as it were, with an awesome choir.
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« Reply #24 on: February 09, 2016, 12:00:12 PM »

Catholic, ECLA and Baptist
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