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[quote=Anonymous]My mother forced church every single week, rain, shine, if we were sick (I have vomited in church more times than I care to remember), no matter what else we might have had going on, if I babysat late the night before my rear end was in that pew at 7am, etc. Also for every holy day of obligation and many days that weren’t obligated. If you lived in her house you were at church. Eventually she gave into begging that allowed us to choose which mass instead of 7am. I was a lector, president of the youth group, ran the stations of the cross, volunteered at every event, etc. I promptly stopped going to church the moment I left home. I returned to it on my own in grad school, but not every week. And I’ve mostly remained that way through adulthood. My spouse is in the you must be there every week camp. Our kids attend Catholic school (newly this year) and they have every other week school mass and they’ve started putting up a fight hardcore on those weeks because they don’t want to go twice in a week (I don’t blame them!) and it became a big fight between them and my spouse. I think we’ve mostly worked it out where we go every other week now, which suits my preferences fine and my spouse can of course attend as he pleases. All that to say, I think forcing the issue is the fastest way to turn them off totally. [/quote]

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