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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I was in college, I went for a weekend visit to my close friend's home (same floor as me in our dorm) because her hometown was a one-hour drive from campus. I knew she was Christian, but I didn't know [i]how[/i] fucking Christian. She wanted to take me to church and decided to pick out a progressive Church with a rock band (?) in order to give me a better inroad to Jesus or something, instead of her parents' very staid, we-are-wealthy-Protestants-who-burn-for-Jesus congregation.

Never asked me if I wanted to go. I was too timid to say I didn't want to go, plus I thought that somehow [i]I[/i] would come off as the religiously intolerant one if I said no to attending her church. Worst part was, she knew how much I wasn't interested in Christianity and that I enjoyed my own private spirituality.[/quote]

Oh jeez, those rock and roll churches always made me the MOST uncomfortable. I felt so silly, dorky, and embarrassed for them. I grew up Catholic, and definitely have always preferred a more traditional service (even as a teen).  Those churches always an obnoxious youth pastor. Nothing worse than an over enthusiastic young adult trying to prove how much they click with the kids. [/quote]

Yes, the rock band church came as ver culturally strange. I would have been happy if my friend had taken me to a "grown-up" church with stained glass windows - that's a pretty nice atmosphere, actually. But this "young" church had a lot of very neatly dressed young people with shiny, earnest faces singing about Jesus with their electric guitars and then pausing to explain how they overcame porn. Plus they all grinned very toothily at me and were very...overly friendly. Like everything was a sales pitch.

I like stuffy pastors with monocles and heavy leather-bound books (I'm the non-Christian college student FYI), that just feels normal. If I want to relax with young people my age and listen to good music, I'm not going to do it in a church where I feel like I'm being given the hard sell by some very shiny people who desperately need to get laid.[/quote]

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