Which religion goes to church the most?

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I believe, that most Catholic’s will be of a spiritual nature. Rather than church nature. Its going that way already. Not going to church.
Mathew 6:5-8 tell me things like that. :I’m not using this sola scripture here.im looking around, talking and feeling with fellow Catholics. they pray for sure. But they don’t like what the priest is saying. All the PC and all.so they pray in private.

that’s how I look at it any way. I’ve no doubt people will rush in now two feet first and start all the hell ,fire and brimstone talk. its sad how its got to this. really is… the kids over were I live don’t get taught nothing other than nativity, along with Easter. is it any wonder why places like England is so badly represented by Catholics.
 
TARRAT said:
We also have people who go to Mass daily. How do they figure that into the equation. Most other religions don’t even have that.

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I was wondering that myself but when I did the math, in our parish only about 2 to 3% of our parishioners attend daily Mass, but I am thankful for even that!
 
TARRAT said:
We also have people who go to Mass daily. How do they figure that into the equation. Most other religions don’t even have that.

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Yes, there are between 50 to 75 people of ALL ages that come to Daily Mass at my Church. God Bless, Memaw
 
75% of Mormon’s go to Church because those who don’t get kicked out and are no longer Mormon.

The Catholic Church could have 100% attendance if we had a role call or punch clock and excommunicated those who didn’t show up for a few weeks.

Mormon’s don’t want those who don’t attend regularly. We are supposed to be different. The idea is to welcome them, not throw them out.

-Tim-
 
Doormouse said:
I believe, that most Catholic’s will be of a spiritual nature. Rather than church nature. Its going that way already. Not going to church.
Mathew 6:5-8 tell me things like that. :I’m not using this sola scripture here.im looking around, talking and feeling with fellow Catholics. they pray for sure. But they don’t like what the priest is saying. All the PC and all.so they pray in private.

that’s how I look at it any way. I’ve no doubt people will rush in now two feet first and start all the hell ,fire and brimstone talk. its sad how its got to this. really is… the kids over were I live don’t get taught nothing other than nativity, along with Easter. is it any wonder why places like England is so badly represented by Catholics.
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Mostly thanks to Henry VIII, God Bless, Memaw
 
Doormouse said:
I believe, that most Catholic’s will be of a spiritual nature. Rather than church nature. Its going that way already. Not going to church.
Mathew 6:5-8 tell me things like that. :I’m not using this sola scripture here.im looking around, talking and feeling with fellow Catholics. they pray for sure. But they don’t like what the priest is saying. All the PC and all.so they pray in private.

that’s how I look at it any way. I’ve no doubt people will rush in now two feet first and start all the hell ,fire and brimstone talk. its sad how its got to this. really is… the kids over were I live don’t get taught nothing other than nativity, along with Easter. is it any wonder why places like England is so badly represented by Catholics.
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This is unfortunately true, the problem being that we are a Sacramental Church, we receive graces from the Sacraments that allow us to grow spiritually. Regardless of what the priest is saying Catholics should partake of the Sacraments to actually come into contact with our loving creating God who gives Himself to us in the Sacraments.👍
 
DCNBILL said:
This is unfortunately true, the problem being that we are a Sacramental Church, we receive graces from the Sacraments that allow us to grow spiritually. Regardless of what the priest is saying Catholics should partake of the Sacraments to actually come into contact with our loving creating God who gives Himself to us in the Sacraments.👍
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Amen to what you have just said…👍😉
 
Doormouse said:
I’m not using this sola scripture here.im looking around, talking and feeling with fellow Catholics. they pray for sure. But they don’t like what the priest is saying. All the PC and all.so they pray in private.
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I’ll bet there are many who think that following a certain regiment isn’t being sincere with prayer.

I once worked for a boss back in 1970 who was very vocal in his criticism against praying in cadences. He kept pointing out that in group prayer there is more focus on trying to stay together than in actually praying from the heart. It may sound like prayer, and this “participation” may be pleasing to priests and bishops, but it really isn’t prayer. I believe my boss had a point.
 
The Catholic Church is struggling with a clumsiness that comes with her size. The American Catholic Church grew with the coming of the Irish, Italian, and Polish, but these groups suffered a certain distancing from the rest of the culture because of their Catholicity. Today, “Catholic” is as much a cultural label as it is a religious one.

There’s not usually a cultural label that comes when you’re mainstream. The US is a historical protestant country, so few people maintain a cultural heritage to the fact that they’re roots are protestant. It just doesn’t mean anything to them. Being a blonde in Mexico makes you special; being a blonde in Sweden makes you just another blonde. So “protestant” or “evangelical” is a religious label, but not much of a cultural one.

The Mormon Church has high attendance because the Mormon Church is considerably superior to the American Catholic Church in the exercise of natural virtue. The Holy Spirit does not and will not give His Church an automatic edge simply because it is doctrinally correct. If He did, she would become proud, and her virtue would be even more diminished. Catholics need to aspire to those aspects of protestantism which would be useful in better building the zeal of the Catholic community. We need to be spiritual thieves, while at the same time not losing those truths which are eternally entrusted to us. This is natural in the progression of the Church and it has already been going on for 2000 years. The Church was a certain way in the very beginning when its spirituality was almost exclusively off of its own native Judaic roots. The Church then developed and become more complex as she entered into Greek culture, and she was positively influenced by the logic & philosophical heritage that the pagan Greeks offered to her, but without abandoning the doctrinal truths of the faith. She then changed further as she encountered other cultures.
 
KendraDZ1902 said:
I get that…that is why I wondered why they are in the poll. Because like, they don’t believe in going to church…
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I know quite a few Atheists who attend church regularly. They think it’s good to have a stable, repetitive, weekly activity for their children to participate in. So they attend a local UU congregation. UU. It’s church for people who don’t, you know… church.
 
Horton said:
Did anyone else notice this article is from an LDS owned newspaper in SLC?
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Didn’t notice.
Did they also conduct the polling? There may be some bias.
I couldn’t even find anything on what the sample looked like.

Although I would not be surprised if this trend was true. When Gallup did a nationwide poll of church attendance by states, Utah was one one of the states at the top.
 
Horton said:
Did anyone else notice this article is from an LDS owned newspaper in SLC?
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I was surprised that the article was written - it must have been a slow news day. The Pew Research Center released the data in 2013, so this isn’t exactly new data.

The LDS had nothing to do with either Pew or Gallup; I would imagine that they wrote about it because the Mormons came out on top. Why now? No clue.
 
That does not surprise me. I used to be a Mormon. If you stop going to Church, they will send people to see you to find out why and try to bring you back. They do a number of things to reach out to people. They focus highly on faith formation, too, although they call it seminary. High School students are expected to attend seminary every day before school starts, where they are taught the OT, NT, BoM/D&C. And all males are expected to do a mission after high school, and women are encouraged to.

Now clearly I no longer believe their religious beliefs are correct, but they could teach other Christians quite a lot about keeping people active in the faith and growing the faith worldwide.
 
KendraDZ1902 said:
How does an atheist go to church? No one else wondered this when they saw the poll?
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My cousin is an atheist and she attends Church. Her explanation is that while she does not believe in God, she does think that Churches do good things socially and she wants to be a part of those good things. She attends an extremely liberal Church that does not require a belief in God in order to be a member.
 
TimothyH said:
75% of Mormon’s go to Church because those who don’t get kicked out and are no longer Mormon.
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This is patently UNTRUE. You do NOT get excommunicated from the Mormon church for lack of Church attendance. Excommunication is for serious sins or apostasy, not for lack of Church attendance. Mormons refer to people who don’t attend church as “inactive” and make great efforts to get them to go back to Church. They do not excommunicate them for inactivity.
 
KendraDZ1902 said:
I get that…that is why I wondered why they are in the poll. Because like, they don’t believe in going to church…
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I occasionally go in order to drag the wife to church when she hasn’t been in a while. I accept I don’t understand it or care for it but more often than not church makes her happy.

In the past I’ve also gone a few times due to a friend’s baptism, several failed attempts to believe, and while pursuing a romantic interest. So yea, romantic reasons or attempting to believe have been the top reasons.
 
I’d be interested in seeing which religion or Christian faith tradition leads the rest in categories such as:

a) people falling asleep during worship
b) people sitting near the back even when there are ample seats up front and in the middle.
c) people looking glum and not saying a word to anyone before, during, or after their worship experience and just high-tailing it out of there as quickly as they possibly can so they can beat the Baptists to the best restaurants.

Note: This was not meant to be serious commentary. The names were changed to protect the innocent 🙂
 
TARRAT said:
We also have people who go to Mass daily. How do they figure that into the equation. Most other religions don’t even have that.

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In Romania, many Orthodox Churches have Divine Liturgy every day.
 
AKDee said:
My cousin is an atheist and she attends Church. Her explanation is that while she does not believe in God, she does think that Churches do good things socially and she wants to be a part of those good things. She attends an extremely liberal Church that does not require a belief in God in order to be a member.
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I wouldn’t exactly call that a church if they don’t even believe in God.
 
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