"Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's Cocaine Snorting *****" <eacmole@/
*AWOLBUSH*/mail.com> wrote in news:ub7o319c9m87jqil1i78612jugglaave05@
4ax.com:

Since half of my mom's side are regressing from nominal Christianty to
full blown Fundamentalism, I have another reason to avoid them.
They're crazy to begin with.

Anyway. back to my question. Who here sets the record for the total
number of hours spent on Christianity/Religion? By that I mean time
spent on Sunday services, Bible Studies, Xian camps, etc etc. It
doesn't have to be Christianty, although I doubt there are any
lifelong Muslims who recently got deconverted around here, or ones who
would admit as such without getting executed by the Saudi religious
police.

I'll start first. I probably spend 100 hours reading the Bible from
cover to cover and I probebly spent 30 hours of my life being dragged
to Sunday Services. They stop trying when I told them I rather study
for the SAT than to go to their stupid church. So I "invested" 130
hours on Christianity.

Going to Chruch weddings or reading things on Christianity (for
example, a treatise on European religious history by an academic) do
not count unless they are ludicrously evangelical in nature. Time
spent on reading things such as skepticsannotatedbible.com also does
not count, just to make the accounting a bit easier.

Winner of this poll will get $10 from me, in the form of a $10
donation to the charity of your choice.

Clearly I at least qualify having spent considerable time studying to be a
RC priest. I wonder if by itself one could call game. As a seminarian our
daily routine was like this: Wake up at 5:30 - go to prayers, attend mass,
breakfast, classes, prayers at noon, lunch, classes, afternoon prayers,
organized sports, evening prayers, dinner, study hall, night prayers, then
bed. Saturday was no exception from the mass and prayer routine. Sunday
was morning prayers, mass, breakfast and the rest of the day was mine until
evening prayers before bed. I would say that on Sunday we got an 10 hour
break from religion. The classes we were required to take besides the
basics like math, english, etc., were theology, latin, and world religions.

Before the seminary, my mother would drag us to mass evey single day of the
week during the school year as the RC church and school were side by side.
she insisted on driving us to school. Never could figure that one out
except my father was too cheap to spend the money for the bus. Evenings
were spent saying the rosary.

I was an Altar Boy for years! This meant learning the Latin mass and then
after a year or so of that, then I had to learn the mass in english due to
Vatican II. Altar boys attended mass at least twice on weekends. I would
go to mass with the family at 6:30 on Sunday, then had to go back for mass
at 11:15 to perform my duties as servant to the priest. "A little water
with your wine sir?" I always liked the incense bit. If you did timed
things right, when the priest sprined the incense on that glowing bit of
charcoal, the entire sacristy would be filled with smoke. I always
considered it a challenge to make as much smoke as possible. The priest
would never know if the piece of charcoal was really glowing red or not as
you couldnt really see inside the incense burner. Once he dumped the
powdered incense on it, he was committed and there was no turning back.
Some of the priests cheated and used just a tiny amount so no matter what,
very little smoke was produced. It was rather disappointing.

This sort of hard core religion lasted until the late 70's or so. Ever
hear of somethiing called Pilgrim Madonna? Routine at our house. We had
an outdoor shrine that my father built with a statue of Mary. It was
complete with cedar hut, colored lights, rose bushes, etc. Palm sunday was
when all the dried up bits of Palm got changed from the year before. They
were stuck behind evey religous picture. We could never get enough to do
them all We even had the family name on one the Stations of the Cross.
Choir, retreats, Jesus rallys were common.

Hours spent? You have to be kidding. Let's start with years before you
get down to hours.

"Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's Cocaine Snorting *****" <eacmole@/
*AWOLBUSH*/mail.com> wrote in news:ub7o319c9m87jqil1i78612jugglaave05@
4ax.com:

Since half of my mom's side are regressing from nominal Christianty to
full blown Fundamentalism, I have another reason to avoid them.
They're crazy to begin with.

Anyway. back to my question. Who here sets the record for the total
number of hours spent on Christianity/Religion? By that I mean time
spent on Sunday services, Bible Studies, Xian camps, etc etc. It
doesn't have to be Christianty, although I doubt there are any
lifelong Muslims who recently got deconverted around here, or ones who
would admit as such without getting executed by the Saudi religious
police.

I'll start first. I probably spend 100 hours reading the Bible from
cover to cover and I probebly spent 30 hours of my life being dragged
to Sunday Services. They stop trying when I told them I rather study
for the SAT than to go to their stupid church. So I "invested" 130
hours on Christianity.

Going to Chruch weddings or reading things on Christianity (for
example, a treatise on European religious history by an academic) do
not count unless they are ludicrously evangelical in nature. Time
spent on reading things such as skepticsannotatedbible.com also does
not count, just to make the accounting a bit easier.

Winner of this poll will get $10 from me, in the form of a $10
donation to the charity of your choice.

Clearly I at least qualify having spent considerable time studying to be a
RC priest. I wonder if by itself one could call game. As a seminarian our
daily routine was like this: Wake up at 5:30 - go to prayers, attend
mass, breakfast, classes, prayers at noon, lunch, classes, afternoon
prayers, organized sports, evening prayers, dinner, study hall, night
prayers, then bed. Saturday was no exception from the mass and prayer
routine. Sunday was morning prayers, mass, breakfast and the rest of the
day was mine until evening prayers before bed. I would say that on Sunday
we got an 10 hour break from religion. The classes we were required to
take besides the basics like math, english, etc., were theology, latin,
and world religions.

Before the seminary, my mother would drag us to mass evey single day of
the week during the school year as the RC church and school were side by
side. she insisted on driving us to school. Never could figure that one
out except my father was too cheap to spend the money for the bus.
Evenings were spent saying the rosary.

I was an Altar Boy for years! This meant learning the Latin mass and then
after a year or so of that, then I had to learn the mass in english due to
Vatican II. Altar boys attended mass at least twice on weekends. I would
go to mass with the family at 6:30 on Sunday, then had to go back for mass
at 11:15 to perform my duties as servant to the priest. "A little water
with your wine sir?" I always liked the incense bit. If you did timed
things right, when the priest sprined the incense on that glowing bit of
charcoal, the entire sacristy would be filled with smoke. I always
considered it a challenge to make as much smoke as possible. The priest
would never know if the piece of charcoal was really glowing red or not as
you couldnt really see inside the incense burner. Once he dumped the
powdered incense on it, he was committed and there was no turning back.
Some of the priests cheated and used just a tiny amount so no matter what,
very little smoke was produced. It was rather disappointing.

This sort of hard core religion lasted until the late 70's or so. Ever
hear of somethiing called Pilgrim Madonna? Routine at our house. We
had an outdoor shrine that my father built with a statue of Mary. It was
complete with cedar hut, colored lights, rose bushes, etc. Palm sunday
was when all the dried up bits of Palm got changed from the year before.
They were stuck behind evey religous picture. We could never get enough
to do them all We even had the family name on one the Stations of the
Cross. Choir, retreats, Jesus rallys were common.

Hours spent? You have to be kidding. Let's start with years before you
get down to hours.


rj

In article <ub7o319c9m87jqil1i78612jugglaave05@4ax.com>, h.c
<eacmole@/*AWOLBUSH*/mail.com> wrote:

Since half of my mom's side are regressing from nominal Christianty to
full blown Fundamentalism, I have another reason to avoid them.
They're crazy to begin with.

Anyway. back to my question. Who here sets the record for the total
number of hours spent on Christianity/Religion? By that I mean time
spent on Sunday services, Bible Studies, Xian camps, etc etc. It
doesn't have to be Christianty, although I doubt there are any
lifelong Muslims who recently got deconverted around here, or ones who
would admit as such without getting executed by the Saudi religious
police.

I'll start first. I probably spend 100 hours reading the Bible from
cover to cover and I probebly spent 30 hours of my life being dragged
to Sunday Services. They stop trying when I told them I rather study
for the SAT than to go to their stupid church. So I "invested" 130
hours on Christianity.

Going to Chruch weddings or reading things on Christianity (for
example, a treatise on European religious history by an academic) do
not count unless they are ludicrously evangelical in nature. Time
spent on reading things such as skepticsannotatedbible.com also does
not count, just to make the accounting a bit easier.

Winner of this poll will get $10 from me, in the form of a $10
donation to the charity of your choice.

Hmmm. Ought to ping Nemo on this one. IIRC, he was a full blown pastor
or studying to be one before stumbling upon this den of thieves.