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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

There was the one where the guy said "feminism is the worst thing that has ever happened to women."

The one where the guy said "[Jesus] rolled away the stone and crawled out of his tomb fully healed even though his legs were broken" was pretty interesting giving the blatant blasphemy of it all. He had to apologize next week.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Nothing stands out in particular, they were all pretty dull. Haven't attended one ever since I was 16 and could make my own choices.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The sign said, "Everybody welcome, Come in, kneel down and pray"

But when they passed around the plate at the end of it all, I didn't have a penny to pay!

So I got me a pen and a paper, and I made up my own little sign.

I said, "Thank you, Lord, for thinking about me, I'm alive and doin' fine".

Woooooaaah!

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I don't even know if it was a church service per se, since it was a broader thing, but my mother's funeral might count because it ended with my siblings implying they intended to ghost me from then on.

On a less solemn but more bitter note, there was a Buddhist temple where I used to live even though I don't remember if I ever went inside or not. I have a single Buddhist friend, and he warned me (because he was not like other Buddhists) that other Buddhists' notion of karma was such that, along with seeing people with disabilities as having had a past life of sin (or the equivalent Buddhist loanword), some fear it as associative in nature and will go so far as not touch an individual who has a visible medical condition, which I'm the only one with (everyone else's medical history is invisible), and I remarked (referring to Joseph Smith having lived in the area) something like "at least Mormons treat those with respect who they deem as the equivalent to being cursed", which began a theological debate over why it's "meh" when Buddhists deem someone as cursed but "oh no" when those of us who are under the Mormon umbrella do. Nobody mentioned is hostile to me, but there's an air of backhandedness towards me whenever I'm around. Fortunately it was only ever relevant once.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Well I've only ever been to one and it was my uncle's wedding. no complaints, ceremony was short but its the only church service I've ever been to so that's it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The one when it was my job to carry the crackers for communion up to the alter. About a half dozen slid off the plate when I turned.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I ripped one on a pew during a Christmas eve service once

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