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onpatrol98

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3. Yeah...I think this is about wanting an excuse or an out...
Tue Jan 17, 2012, 05:50 PM
Jan 2012

I'm much more likely to want to sleep in on a Sunday than my husband. Not to mention, even in the south, while more women are in attendance, everything is still run by males. So, if other males are unhappy, they have only themselves to blame.

Potluck dinners were cooked by women, eaten by everyone, but made it easy to feed a lot of people with less money. Many churches didn't have the resources to cater. As for tea parties, etc...Men were running everything else. So, women ended up doing what interested them at the time and didn't intimidate men in their roles.

Now, today some churches are more progressive than others. But, those are my memory of churches in older times. I think the reason some men don't like attending church is the same reason some women don't like to attend. Down deep, they don't think God will mind and they simply want to do something else with their time...sleep, scratch, play golf, whatever...

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I don't really understand the author. Union Scribe Jan 2012 #1
I'm a female xmas74 Jan 2012 #2
Yeah...I think this is about wanting an excuse or an out... onpatrol98 Jan 2012 #3
I'd go for that. xmas74 Jan 2012 #5
I find this article both sexist and dumb. kwassa Jan 2012 #4
So my last pastor, xmas74 Jan 2012 #6
And women apparently don't care about excellence WildEyedLiberal Jan 2012 #7
And those kind of guys xmas74 Jan 2012 #8
Hahaha, the Saint Budweiser Church of the Holy Octagon WildEyedLiberal Jan 2012 #9
Any number of my coworkers xmas74 Jan 2012 #11
It might be true somewhere quaker bill Jan 2012 #10
I don't like politics in church Jack Sprat Jan 2012 #12
Churches, denominations, religious people onpatrol98 Jan 2012 #13
I was answering Vince's question from Jack Sprat Jan 2012 #14
Politics, yes. xmas74 Jan 2012 #15
Somehow, I'm not shocked by the story Jack Sprat Jan 2012 #16
Personally, xmas74 Jan 2012 #17
Some of the major denominations split over the issue of slavery Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2012 #19
I realized that you were answering Vince's question. onpatrol98 Jan 2012 #18
Sometimes the men just aren't religious, but I also know couples Lydia Leftcoast Jan 2012 #20
That reminds me of a story that the priest at the church I've been going to lately told... 47of74 Jun 2012 #25
Boredom SayIt Feb 2012 #21
Religion is Feminine; Girly Brettongarcia Feb 2012 #22
Nice post. Tripod Feb 2012 #23
They hate going to church because... Left Coast2020 Jun 2012 #24
hard time going to church refrescanos Jul 2013 #26
Churches = Bachelor Free Zones Mr_Patriot Aug 2013 #27
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