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Honest question. Is this site a religious site?

843 replies

follderol · 26/01/2009 18:01

It seems to me there's a large amount of Christian posts. I've also noticed a fair amount of disapproval for other religions.

I am an atheist. I don't really want to be part of a christian site posing as a parenting site.

So is this actually a Christian place?

OP posts:
procrastinatingparent · 27/01/2009 13:02

Obviously you are not allowed in to church dinners unless you bring a quiche. Or a rice salad.

We do not dance in church. Well, my 4 year old has a right old boogie.

morningpaper · 27/01/2009 13:02

rich tea, yes. It's sort of wishy-washy, limp, flaccid, useless and tastes of nothing.

IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 13:01

I have been racking my brains to think whether there is any truly ecumenical biscuit. I think it might be the Rich Tea.

georgimama · 27/01/2009 12:57

I've been in that play!

I gave up on Methodism when I went to a wedding reception in the church hall. No alcohol.

ruty · 27/01/2009 12:56

This is my childhood you lot are desecrating you know.

KayHarkerIsNotAnAuthority · 27/01/2009 12:54

were you pursued by a bear, georgimama?

I think we need to ease up on the dance references myself. People might start thinking this was a dance site posing as a parenting site.

PP, you're right, we don't actually have any real biscuits at the service. We do have quiche at the church teas, though.

procrastinatingparent · 27/01/2009 12:52

you have biscuits?! No such worldly thrills at our church ...

georgimama · 27/01/2009 12:51

I've exited stage left at thoughts of overhead projectors and dancing in church.

KayHarkerIsNotAnAuthority · 27/01/2009 12:49

Did you waft linen about? And make lots of 'graceful' movements with your arms?

ruty · 27/01/2009 12:46
ruty · 27/01/2009 12:44

oi don't knock my nostalgia. Twas experimental i'l have you know. It was trying desperately not to be repressed and middle class though obviously it was. Was not happy clappy though. [disdain]

KayHarkerIsNotAnAuthority · 27/01/2009 12:42

Actually, I used to dance in church. With a strappy top and combat trousers on. Wasn't very liturgical, though.

IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 12:39

Dance worship!?

I might have known.

morningpaper · 27/01/2009 12:39

at liturgical dance and Happy Faces

sounds horrific to be honest - something needs to change

RustyBear · 27/01/2009 12:38

Having posted that not entirely serious comment without reading the end of the thread, I was worried that I might have been interrupting some serious religious discussion.

I should have known that on MN, a thread like this would inevitably turn into a debate on the comparative theology of biscuits....

ruty · 27/01/2009 12:37

Very high MP. i suspect it was something to do with the rather, er, liberal ethos of those in charge. We had dance worship. That kind of thing.

KayHarkerIsNotAnAuthority · 27/01/2009 12:37

Digestive biscuits are the most appropriate for conservative baptist, of course. No hint of papist cream or frills with a good digestive.

ruty · 27/01/2009 12:34

wise words IB. We also used to get creme eggs after church on Easter Day. A creme egg mixed with a waft of incense is a sensation you can't beat...

morningpaper · 27/01/2009 12:34

"Happy faces are not really appropriate biscuits for church"

I would agree with this

Do you go to a very low church? Do you have an overhead projector?

FriarKewcumber · 27/01/2009 12:32

I just checked active convos (which IME is what most people use to navigate the site unless they are looking for something specific).

Out of the 50 active convo's at the mometn this one is the only one which has a religious theme.

It's a pretty rubbish religious site by stealth if that MNHQ's cunning plan.

I'm an evangelical atheist btw - where are all these religious threads?

IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 12:28

Kay

KayHarkerIsNotAnAuthority · 27/01/2009 12:27

Oh, I dunno, makes a wierd kind of sense. In my third delivery, they did send a canary up to check for poisonous gas.

RustyBear · 27/01/2009 12:26
IorekByrnison · 27/01/2009 12:24

damn - of course, the catholic/hippy woodcraft nexus. How could I have made such an elementary mistake.

WilfSell · 27/01/2009 12:21

actually was baptised catholic, but hippy parents broke out and discovered woodcraft folk before i could make it to confirmation. so the rest pretty much right

[forgive one handedtyping - ill child under arm...]