Anyone attend church only for social reasons?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, you’re welcome to come to Catholic Church and get involved. Do RCIA. Even if you don’t go through with confirmation, you will meet other adults in a small group environment and they will become your friends. No one will pressure you to officially join. It’s up to you. One guy in my parish did RCIA on and off for years before actually getting confirmed. Ignore the anti-Catholic nonsense on dcurbanmom. Just go to mass and see for yourself.

All of the above may be true, but I bet if OP reveals that she's agnostic there will be major attempts in any Catholic church to encourage her to believe in God. That's much less likely in an Episcopal chruch.

This entirely depends on who she reveals it to. Catholic Churches are pretty homogeneous groups of people.
If she revealed it to a priest, she would probably find herself in an intellectual discussion where he shares his own doubts. If she shared it with most parents of school aged kids, they would probably not find that information particularly interesting and change the subject. Some more devout may tell her how that belief has been important in their own lives. If she raised it in RCIA, she may find herself in a heated. but good natured, argument. If she raised it with the group of older women who go to 6am mass daily and meet afterward to pray the rosary, one or two might try to get her to believe, but most would probably tell her that it was fine and she was invited to pray with them anyway.

Most Catholics aren’t particularly great evangelizers. It just isn’t a big part of Catholicism.

All of the above sounds likely. It's also less likely to happen in an Episcopal Church.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you’re welcome to come to Catholic Church and get involved. Do RCIA. Even if you don’t go through with confirmation, you will meet other adults in a small group environment and they will become your friends. No one will pressure you to officially join. It’s up to you. One guy in my parish did RCIA on and off for years before actually getting confirmed. Ignore the anti-Catholic nonsense on dcurbanmom. Just go to mass and see for yourself.

All of the above may be true, but I bet if OP reveals that she's agnostic there will be major attempts in any Catholic church to encourage her to believe in God. That's much less likely in an Episcopal chruch.

This entirely depends on who she reveals it to. Catholic Churches are pretty homogeneous groups of people.
If she revealed it to a priest, she would probably find herself in an intellectual discussion where he shares his own doubts. If she shared it with most parents of school aged kids, they would probably not find that information particularly interesting and change the subject. Some more devout may tell her how that belief has been important in their own lives. If she raised it in RCIA, she may find herself in a heated. but good natured, argument. If she raised it with the group of older women who go to 6am mass daily and meet afterward to pray the rosary, one or two might try to get her to believe, but most would probably tell her that it was fine and she was invited to pray with them anyway.

Most Catholics aren’t particularly great evangelizers. It just isn’t a big part of Catholicism.

All of the above sounds likely. It's also less likely to happen in an Episcopal Church.

What would happen at an episcopal church?