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No its not bad and I think your right. There is no reason you can't believe in god and not go to church. Alot of people feel the way you do. In church they try to push things on you and do nothing but tell you what you can and can't do and who are they to tell you that? So I say continue what you are doing. How old are you? Because if you are 13+ you should tell your mom how you feel and let her know that you do have the right to choose how you believe and in what way you express it. If they start saying you are the spawn of Satan just ignore them and tell them how you believe also. There is nothing wrong with what you are doing. Good luck Hun. Hope I could help.

Rhonda T its people like you that turn more and more people away from god instead of to god. You should think about that!

Your Mom is not pretending to be religious she is perhaps pretending to be spiritual. You can approach God through prayer and through reading and studying the Scriptures. It sounds as though you go to a church where the membership has not noticed that you are away or drifting. I also found church stultifyingly boring and in the end left it. I came back when I discovered there are churches with pastors who live the love of Christ and believe in the forgiveness of sins and the power of God. But I will not join a church ever as joining a church inevitably opens up the politics (which exists in churches - what do you think Paul wrote to the Corinthians for?). I am sorry your family appears to value their religion more than your soul. God is revealed in Christ. Just read the words He spoke (in the Bible) and ask yourself if you have any problem with these words (you probably won't) - then ask if your family is living His words. Your parents are divorced? I am sorry. At the time in your life you need them to be together as a unit to nurture you, they aren't. Does you father not believe? How hard it is to find the narrow path when our human teachers do not evidence such love. We all fail to do this at times. Please do not lose your foundation because of other people. God made you as an individual and He calls you as an individual. In the end you will respond to this call (or not) as an individual. We cannot live for our parents no matter how much they want us to.

Perhaps you are in tune with the hypocrisy of the modern church system. I am a Christian and have a hard time in many, many churches as well. Do not let the church ruin the beauty of God and Jesus for you. Pray for your mother and show her Gods love. Be the example for her you wish she was for you.

Christians are not meant to sit and passively "worship", we are meant to go out into the world and feed the hungry, care for the sick, help the needy and love the world!!!! you can not do that by spending all your budget on a building and programs for yourselves....Jesus commands us to be the church, we are not commanded to go to church.

I do suggest you do some side research into modern church systems versus the way the apostles and earliest church members worshiped. Look into home churches...a chance for believers to gather, fellowship, encourage and worship. It is way too much info for a yahoo answers but I have a couple of sites you can start with.

I will keep you in my prayers...I am 30 and still have some issues from being bounced back and forth as a kid...I wish you well!

I used to get bored too. I was in full agreement with what my church taught, but didn't understand why we had the liturgy. So I got bored with it very easily at first. I felt like some kind of church-robot, just reciting memorized lines. I dug in and found the roots, reason, and importance of liturgical worship, and since then, my experiences at church have been awesome every time. You may have to try something different, but this is what worked for me.

Keep trying to find whatever it is you're looking for in your church. Chances are you'll find it.

Peace,

Drew

I understand that it bores you. When i was a child it bored me a lot, but it was because i didn't understand it. To read a book instead of worshipping God in the church, well i don't think it it perfectly correct, but it's much beter than pretending to worship when you're not doing it from the heart. If you aren't going to worship with your heart i find no sense in doing so.

And yet ithink that place and times must be respected. You can try, however, to read what the priest is saying and you can try listening to the interesting things that they say. And for interesting i mean stupid (not all the priest do it but i have heard very interesting things from priests... very interesting thingd indeed). Try to have fun. You can try knowing the priest better and it won't bore you so much to listen to him. have a chat, make questions. If this doesn't work i think it's better that you read than that you sleep.

You can also make him sugestions so it isn't so boring.

I hope this helps.

Oh, yeah, i forgot: remember that the point of going to the church isn't only to worship but to recieve the body of Christ. Do it for him. He wants you to eat him.

try to read the holy bible.you can find interesting scriptures. And find out what is religion today compare what they did on first century! Revelation chapter 2 to chapter 3. It's all about the seven churches on that time.

Depending how old you are you may just have to put up with it for now. When you are of legal age, you can choose to go to church or not. But you could also have a talk with your parents and tell them just what you have written here. Personally, I hope you decide to go to church.

Join the Kathars they are agianst church so you can worship god and not go to mas

The only book you need to read in church is The Bible. I'd slap you silly for bringing a secular book into church to read during service! However, since you are ridiculing your mother, obviously you haven't been to church enough in your youth. If you had a proper upbringing, you would know that you are to honor your parents...you entire statement indicates you have no respect for the spiritual nurturing God assigned to fathers, so if you only go to church when you are with your mom, who is fulfilling God's command?

Sounds like my youth.

I HATED going to church, it always seemed forced, coerced. Never genuine.

Ask your Mom if you can attend other churches to explore spirituality for yourself.