u/Few_Bad_8724

Im going to fail 🥀❤️‍🩹

How was the paper for the rest of you?

I come from a christian family, went to a super christian elementary school and pretty much got forced to go to church every sunday without fail until the pandemic. After covid ended we had to go back to church and it feels like such a waste of my Sundays. I still went anyways as I’m moving out soon to study abroad, but now my mom is forcing me to go to church every sunday abroad, threatening to ask a pastor to “help me” in said foreign country if I dont go, and to drag me to go to church. Growing up in Christianity, I genuinely used to believe in it, but seeing the stories, morals and ideas of christianity, I started falling out of belief and HATED going to church.

Just this sunday the pastor’s sermon was talking about AI????? And how he keeps up with AI, saying they started their own religion and the sermon was all about to not be “lazy watching Kdramas and Cdramas” and not to make “making money” your priority in life even though you want to give that money back to the church to do evangelical stuff.

I spoke my thoughts after church and told my family how the sermon was absolutely idiotic (He’s basically saying ur stupid and wrong for making your goal earning money and donating it to the church - what will the sponsors say about that? 😂) and revolved the entire sermon about AI , and my mom as an avid churchgoer tried to defend the guy saying that he’s right and that we need pastors like that to tell us the hard truths. And I said the pastor himself said some people don’t like his sermons (which deserved cause its stupid af). Even my father agreed that it was a stupid sermon.

Honestly, this was my first time being forced to listen after a long time cause I forgot my airpods. But after that conversation (me bringing up the stupidity of the sermon), she made an ultimatum and told me that I HAVE to go to church when I’m studying abroad. (She’s paying for college). My sister brought up how hillsong had sexual abuse cases and she said she doesn’t care and requires us to go to church. I hate going to church and she thinks forcing me is going to somehow make me love church. I asked her why she wants me to go to church and asked her what she expects me to find in church? And she said that church will “lead me to the right path” in life.