So Jow Forums do you go to church, is religion and attendance at religious services common and a greater part of your country's culture?
In Australia, the majority of people Christians don't attend weekly church services, and people are largely apathetic to religion.
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I never go to church, but lots of brazilian people go
Most people nowadays don't attend regular services or have church membership unless you're a Mormon or live in the South.
Went to church every Sunday + on occasions during the week and holidays from the age of 6 to ~14/15. First few years I didn't really mind because I knew all my friends from school would be there and we'd have some ice cream afterwards. Later I became more rebellious and didn't want to go, parents still tried to get me there with force but they gave up seeing that also other families kids stopped going every single sunday. Nowadays I don't even attend Christmas and Easter masses.
Going to church was never about religion or faith, was simply about community and seeing your friends.
Piss off with this garbage.
basically never except when we were doing something with grandparents (who do go) or once or twice at easter or christmas. went a couple of times with my sister when we were young, but she only went cause she had friends who went.
now i'm an atheist, but all my friends who are christians have been going with their families since forever. i reckon if my family had been the kind that went every weekend and i was surrounded by people reaffirming my beliefs i'd probably still be christian, which would also explain why churches are so desperate for people to worship in a group rather than have a 'personal relationship' with god, as well as cause they get more money out of you that way.
oh, and forgot to mention school chapel, but that was compulsory and didn't have the same reaffirming of belief cause most of us didn't want to be there and not everyone going believed.
so why are you an atheist user? Is it because your family wasn't there to reaffirm your beliefs? What would cause you to believe again?
that's not the reason why i became an atheist, i'm just observing that that kind of environment would have made it easier to become an atheist that if i had been in a churchgoing family where your community is tied to religion and you have your beliefs being reaffirmed. not really interested in getting into a debate about evidence of god, but that's the reason why i became an atheist and what it would take to make me believe again.
Church used to be huge in the US and in the past 20 years it completely died out...
Makes me wonder who is behind it desu