How religious are you?

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How religious are you?
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Sun, 11-26-2006 - 1:56pm

Okay - it's sunday and I've come from a very sweet day at church made even sweeter because of the message of the season of thankfulness and Christ's birth and it made me wonder - how religious are you?

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Registered: 05-15-2005
Tue, 11-28-2006 - 5:12pm
OH girl!

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Registered: 09-22-2006
Tue, 11-28-2006 - 6:22pm
Thanks, your right and I am hoping that the boys will befriend him and that will get him to church as for my baby he knows that he missed out on sunday so maybe he will think before he chooses to go with daddy-altough he is a tad young for making those kinds of choices and DH know that he will always choose him! My dh trys hard to be supportive, he says that he misses me when I go and it makes it hard for me to go som sundays so I understand how my kids feel!

                   

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Registered: 04-06-2006
Tue, 11-28-2006 - 11:10pm
We are Christians here, and are in limbo looking for a new church to attend so far we haven't found one. We do read our bibles together on most Sunday's though.

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Wed, 11-29-2006 - 11:02am
We're Catholic and my kids do go to Catholic school, but we're not all that religious in the sense that we rarely go to church.
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Wed, 11-29-2006 - 12:23pm

We are Christians and attend worship gatherings at an independant Christian church. To answer the question as to how religious I am, we like to say that we don't have a religion, we have a relationship. Christ is the center of my life and that of my family.

We attend worship gathering every Sunday morning. I attend a weekly Womans Insprirational Group study meeting each week and I'm a member of the prayer team. Dh edits the sermons each week and puts them on the church website and also makes a pod cast available.

As for our son, he attends regularly, and usually stays and volunteers in the preschool room during the second worthship hour. He also goes to the youth group meetings each week. He is seriously considering becoming a pastor so he's always looking for opportunities to serve and spends a good deal of time talking with our youth pastor.

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Registered: 03-27-2003
Wed, 11-29-2006 - 6:56pm

Well has many of you all ready know we are Muslim here.

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Thu, 11-30-2006 - 1:38pm
I have a question for you if you don't mind. When DS is giving the cards/gifts to his teachers, he plans to give his Muslim teacher the same as the others. They aren't religious cards, they are more of a cute "Happy Holidays" with a winter scene. Do you think that is ok? Would you be pleased or offended by receiving something like that?

     Lisa
and her two "whirlwinds"
     DS-13 & DD-9

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 11-30-2006 - 1:46pm
I can't answer for Rasheita but this just came up today. I have a Muslim professor here and today she asked if I started Christmas shopping and we were mentioning that her briefcase is so heavy and I said she needed on on wheels. And I said without thinking "Oh you can ask for one for Christmas". Then I said "Oh, I suppose for the next Eid then." and she said "I celebrate Christmas a bit too, why not celebrate all the holidays." So I think you'll find most people are open to all holidays and will be touched that you thinking about them. Obviously they don't want a gift or card that is overtly relgious but I think what you described sounds perfect. But as a Muslim teacher I'll let Rasheita speak for herself. :-)

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Registered: 11-29-2006
Thu, 11-30-2006 - 6:47pm
Here is my story. I was raised Episcoplaian, but never was much into it. I went to my friend's church in 6th grade (Southern Baptist) and became a believer. However, in about 9th grade I began questioning my faith, but I hung on to it because most of my friends were devoutly Christian. When I went to college (Humboldt State), I met several atheistt and agnostics and began talking to them. I realized that that was what I really believed. When I met my husband, an atheist, it all clicked.

We have allowed our children to go to church with their friends when asked, but none of them have expressed any interest whatsoever in becoming a Christian at all, or any religion for that matter.
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Fri, 12-01-2006 - 9:53am

Sorry for the late reply.

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