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I could never get past the 'belief' part. If churches didn't require you to believe, maybe they'd have more attendees.
by Filligree 3y ago
I could never get past the 'belief' part.
If churches didn't require you to believe, maybe they'd have more attendees.
- giraffe_lady 3y agoThen there's nothing to tie that community together and it eventually gets deprioritized or simply subsumed into the general culture. Look at "creedless" denominations over time to see how it plays out. There's no specific belief you need to hold to be a quaker for example, and as a result some quaker practices have been absorbed into other protestant churches while quakerism itself is almost dead.
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- yardie 3y agoI don't think you are required to believe to attend. I've had a few conversations with clergy and I'm pretty sure they aren't sure they believe themselves. What they do have in abundance is faith.
- Filligree 3y agoChurches where I live require you to speak out loud affirmations of your faith, and I don't have any. I suppose I could mumble, or just not speak, but either way I'd feel like a fraud.
- gg82 3y agoYou can go to church without believing... but believing is the whole point of church.
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- lozenge 3y agoThe Universal Unitarians don't require it. Actually, a lot of churches operate on "don't ask don't tell"
- Balgair 3y agohttps://www.uua.org/find https://www.uua.org/find
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoThat's called a social club. Big classics are the fraternal orders, like the Masons and Oddfellows, but there are plenty of others. I can assure you, they don't get more attendees.