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I know religous gatherins sounds like cult stuff but I mean like church or synagog (sp?) or whatever your religon does ...if you have one. (Most religons technically started as cults anyway but thats a different story)



Okay well do you read during religous gatherings?

Like I really hate going to church just because I think it is so boring, (I mean no offense to religous people but I'm just not religous) but my mom makes me go and figures atleast if I'm there at all my eternal soul will be saved so she lets me read during the sevice. I had been reading in church for atleast a year but one Saturday one of the ushers comes over and askes if I could put away my book because it was bothering a woman. My mom asked me to put away my book but told me to sit just outside the door so I was sitting outside reading. Now she won't let me reading in church anymore unless I am sitting behind this desk thing in the entrance area. Yesterday we got to church more than half-way through the service so she wouldn't let me read since we went right to our other spot not behind the desk. Instead I curled up with my book in my lap and went to sleep which I guess my mom figure would offend less people. Is it really that bad either, I don't get the point of going if my mom is going to let me read. It's alo kind of annoying to read in church because I'll get the songs stuck in my head because i guess even if I'm not paying attention I still kind of hear them.

I'm sorry. Hope you figure something out. What I did for a while until I started this hardcover book was read smaller paperbacks and put the little book thingy you're reading under it so you can't see the cover and if you don't look closely than you can't tell I'm reading something else.

I can't stand reading thos little book things to me it's like reading a textbook, I find listening to the thing is more entertainging than reading it.

My mother used to let my brother read in church. The sermon was above his head, but he had to be there because the rest of us were, so she didn't have a problem with him quietly reading during service. One woman actually approached my mother about it and said, "How do you think Dan [the pastor] would feel if he looked down and saw your son reading during his sermon?" I think my mother said something to the effect of "I'm sure he wouldn't mind my son behaving during church." What my mother later told me she wanted to say was "How do you think Dan would feel if he looked down and saw your son climbing over the pews?" Go mom.

Since I my parents never really forced me to go to church except when I was little, I never didn't often felt the need to distract myself. (Heaven knows that I would have done about anything for a good book through some Sunday school lessons, when I felt like the speaker couldn't construct a decent speech to save his soul and I couldn't figure out what on Earth he was talking about.) For the most part, if I went to a religious function, it was because I wanted to go.

Overall, if it's not your choice to go, and you're really not going to be able to pay attention anyway, I don't see any reason not to read. Although, I think writing might be better, since nosey people around you might just think you're taking notes. It makes me wonder when people are distracted by someone reading a book, you know?
Of course, it might be better not to 'cause your brother to stumble'...

I get what you're saying about it being disrespectful but I don't have a choice unless I'm practically falling asleep while talking to my mom or if I feel sick then I have to go. If I had a choice though then it really would be disrespectful to read.

Even if I didn't read everything the pastor says would go in one ear than out the other so I wouldn't be paying attenton anyway. I would probably be picking at the pew or the carpet while thinking some random stuff. So if people think not reading will make me pay attention any more, it really won't.

When I was a kid they had a little sound-proof room on the second floor of the church I wen to so if I got bored and restless my mom could take me up there and I could run around and play and no one qould care since it was just a Kid Room so if a baby started crying then the parent could take the there and still listen while the baby doesn't bother anyone, or a kid started getting restless and climbing over the pews and stuff like that.
Don't ask how they could still hear in the room, there was a funny thing in the wall where the sound would come in but not out. I never understood how it worked.

We mostly all read seperate books and bring them in to discuss and trade.

Even though I don't go to church I know what it feels like to sit through a presentation/assembly bored out on my mind, wishing I could reading something worthwhile.

I very, very rarely go to church. When I do go, it's usually with friends of the family. They don't let me read.