"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 22 May 2014 05:46:10 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> ...
>> > On 5/22/2014 1:46 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
>> >>
>> >> "Nancy Young" > wrote in message
>> >> ...
>> >>> Upon further reflection, I'd probably have the chicken. I don't care
>> >>> for jerk, but who knows, maybe I'd change my mind.
>> >>>
>> >>> I've only been to a couple of no-booze weddings. I don't think
>> >>> they're very common in a lot of areas.
>> >>
>> >> Most of the weddings I've been to were no booze. I was raised
>> >> Methodist
>> >> and they don't drink. Or they're not supposed to anyway...
>> >
>> > First I've heard of that. My mom was raised Methodist and there was
>> > definitely no prohibition against alcohol. I've got a pic of Grandma
>> > holding a beer at Mom & Dad's (decidedly casual) wedding reception.
>> >
>> I guess it depends on the church. The one we went to in Wichita required
>> my
>> parents to sign a card each week. No drinking and no dancing. I didn't
>> get
>> this at all because my parents did drink and I danced. They also went
>> dancing from time to time.
>
> Sounds more like Jehovah's Witness than Methodist and card signing is
> more like AA than church. Are you absolutely sure the card they
> signed wasn't a tithe card?
>>
>> There was no such card signed here but at our communion we only had grape
>> juice as wine wasn't allowed.
>
> It reflects our Puritan past... and possibly a minister who is aware
> of parishioners who have problems with alcohol and doesn't want to
> temp them in church.
>
>> I do realize that many people did drink.
>> Heck, even one of the pastors drank whiskey. This is one reason why I
>> just
>> can't get into religion. The do as I say sort of thing.
>
> I won't bother to ask.

No need. I have just seen too many things over the years that make me
anti-religion. I'm sure you have seen some things like that on the news.
In this case it was at a Young Life meeting. Not even sure who runs the
thing but a friend who is now a Methodist minister begged me to go. I just
couldn't get into it because it was like teens divided into teams and doing
silly things like seeing who could unroll a roll of toilet paper first. The
winner won a plunger. That was not my idea of a good time so I began poking
around in the kitchen. My friend's dad (the pastor) was in there taking a
slug of whiskey. He then offered me some and said that it was the only
thing that kept him sane. I was only 15 at the time. I just kind of did
one of those like...Ima pretend that I just didn't see that...and walked
out.

There were plenty of other things that I saw and heard about in that church
an things that I saw from others all around me that just left a bad taste in
my mouth.

I try to be kind to other people and animals. I try to be helpful.. I give
to the food bank. Stuff like that. I try not to break laws. And I try to
do the right thing.

I just very much dislike people who claim to be doing things like this and
yet are not doing the right thing. Like having affairs, stealing, cheating
on tests, etc. All the while claiming to be somehow holier than you are.
Anyway... That's enough about that.