Posted on 03/04/2007 6:25:29 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
here I thought that the reason for increased attendance at our WELS (Lutheran) congregation was due to growth of the city where I live...but now that I actually think about it, we have quite a few people fleeing liberalism in their former churches...:(
Go to a masculine Church for your children's sake. Attend for your own sake. Pray for the kid's sake. The negative effect is precisely from women who go to church 'for the children.' That is a turnoff.
I don't see that. My husband and I both take our children to church, just about every weekend (VS had to go to the Saturday vigil mass yesterday.) By this study, they are more likely to keep attending as adults if I stop going, and even more if I stop practicing entirely. That doesn't make sense to me. Our faith is part of the unity of our marriage, and the unity of our marriage a gift of our faith. And that is the rock our children's lives are built on.
Mrs VS
I do go to church - with my husband (a guy who calls himself Veratatis Splendor is going to be a church-goer.) For my sake and my children's sake.
We now do go to a masculine church - we left a parish where the priest was swishy and self-conscious, the female associates pushed forward for their femaleness, the language unisexed, and the theology frequently dubious.
Now we're in a traditional parish and we're happy there.
Mrs VS
The "attends irregularly" stretches it out for many more generations. Bear in mind this is a Swiss study, and may not apply to other cultures, and mixes of sects.
There's nothing more refreshing - and manly - than a God loving church attending man!
They are SO far superior to narcissistic, porn addicted, workaholics!
Yes, I didn't understand that either. It's a difference of only 5% or so, thus it is not immensely significant. In any case, what we're measuring here is church sttendance - not necessarily depth of faith conviction or orthodoxy of theology - all things which the mother doubtless has a strong influence over. How often your body is in church is important, but it's not everything.
Listen to what Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Seattle has to say about men (sad, but true)...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zKHILew-laI
Christianity still is quite masculine. In fact, the most courageous, self-sacrificing, competent men I know attend our church regularly
There are masculine men is some of the denominations of American Christianty. But by the whole, American Christianity is a woman's faith. Men have little place and role in many churches.
Perhaps your interpretation of Christianity is somewhat perverted.
I dont think so. American Christity is feminized and at times a perverted laughingstock of the world.
Islam has its own perversions. But when it comes to which is the uber-masculine religion at this time. Islam wins.
, but the crap promulgated by the "leadership" of such organizations as the elca.
Agreed. But just as we see Islam as perverted because of the focus taken by its leadership we should also accept the perversion of American Christiantiy's leadership as tainting the faith.
Agreed. We've gone from Onward Christian Soldier to Draw Me Close to You...and I like Michael W. Smith...but we've strayed. Many/most hymns have doctrine in them...now our songs have sentiment. Nothing's wrong with some sentiment...but jello isn't solid meat.
Very cool. I'm just guessing the negative impact of Moms attending with the Dad and kids comes from a measurement of those cases wehre women take their kids to church, not because it means a whole lot to the women, but because they think they owe it to the kids to take the kids. In my experience, men are far less likely to attend because they think they owe it to the kids.
Trying to explain why I'm guessing the data doesn't say anything negative about the Mom who is serious about her faith.
Thank you very much.
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