Going commando to church

I think it all depends on the denomination. At my church, which is a large, city church, jeans are NEVER seen on the adults. Coming to church means getting dressed up in a suit and tie (generally) or khakis and a dress shirt, women will be found in dresses, pant suits, skirts and blouses, etc. Basic business wear prevails.
The teenagers wear jeans, but they are off in another building having a youth/children's worship service geared to their age group running at a parallel time to our three morning services. At my former home church (Pentecostal) women were not allowed to wear pants, so you would only see women in knee length dresses or skirts.

I would never think of going to chuch in shorts. I think it's a sign of irreverence to God. God is holy and demands just a little bit more respect than shorts and a tank top with flip flops as I've seen in many non-Protestant churches. I guess we Protestants just hold to tradition a lot more than some churches do.

Prepstud, it had occurred to me that it might be a denominational or even regional difference (since all those at churches I dissed as "permissive" ;) are in the South and I'm in the Northeast). FWIW, when I attended church it was either a Methodist or Lutheran congregation, so we are talking Protestant here as well.

Steve

Ummm ... excuse me? The Catholic Church has the Latin Vulgate as its official translation of the Bible, completed twelve centuries before the King James Version was begun. The liturgy of the Catholic Curch is the Mass which dates back to the time of St. Gregory the Great, the Pope who reigned more than twelve and a half centuries before Martin Luther was born. The Latin Church can trace its Pontificate and Episcopate back to the apostles. In light of the traditions held by the Catholic Church, how does one's choice of clothing qualify as "holding to tradition a lot more"?

what's respect got to do with what you wear? if god is supposed to be omnipresent, he sees you picking your nose, farting in your sleep, and skipping around the house in your daughter's underwear anyway. I'd think that wearing formal clothes to church would just prompt a :eyes: on his part.

Since I've begun going commando through the week, I did give pause to what I would do about church. I settled on wearing silk boxer underwear that fits tightly enough to keep everything in place. Like oldbodybuilder, I sing in the choir and wear a long robe, but it isn't necessary to make me 'decent'. I think it takes a full ass to pull fabric tightly enough to cause a noticeable bulge in front, and my ass does not a crotch shower make. Dressing in suit and tie will always be my preferred donning for worship services.

Luke

what's respect got to do with what you wear? if god is supposed to be omnipresent, he sees you picking your nose, farting in your sleep, and skipping around the house in your daughter's underwear anyway. I'd think that wearing formal clothes to church would just prompt a :eyes: on his part.
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You kiss the don's hand and call him Godfather or you face the consequences.

As far as God is concerned, you kneel when you pray, use the words thee, thou, thine, etc., dress appropriately for the purpose and love your neighbor as yourself. Sure, he see's all the warts and boogers, but he also demands the respect he is due.

I play the organ at my church. We all are very informal although we are a mainstream, traditional protestant church.

I am afraid that if I went commando I would be tempted to play WITH my organ instead of play the organ. Not a good thing at church.

Ummm ... excuse me? The Catholic Church has the Latin Vulgate as its official translation of the Bible, completed twelve centuries before the King James Version was begun. The liturgy of the Catholic Curch is the Mass which dates back to the time of St. Gregory the Great, the Pope who reigned more than twelve and a half centuries before Martin Luther was born. The Latin Church can trace its Pontificate and Episcopate back to the apostles. In light of the traditions held by the Catholic Church, how does one's choice of clothing qualify as "holding to tradition a lot more"?
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And the Protestants split apart. Over minutiae a lot of times. I can tell Coke from Pepsi, but I can't tell two different Protestant flavors apart.

wow. that's a pretty big insecurity problem he's got, considering he's supposed to be the master of the universe and all.

Why is it that no topic even remotely related to religion can be mentioned in this forum without Dr. Rock and Ashlar feeling compelled to attack the entire concept of Christianity with biggotry and hatred that would be roundly condemned if directed at any other group in society? Most of us have the common decency to respect the views of others, even when we disagree, but not these two! Oh, I forgot! I guess they hate the Golden Rule because it was Jesus who said it.

We kneel during the canon of the Mass, but we view God as a loving Father, not a mafioso don who reigns through fear. We do God's will because we want to please Him, not because we're afraid we'll awake with a horse's head in our bed otherwise. I can give respect and glory to God regardless of my apparel.

BTW, we only use the archaic forms Thou, Thee, Thy, Thine in set prayers and hymns. In free-style prayer, we normally use You, Your. But as a point of interest, Thou, Thee, etc., are terms of familiarity, not terms of respect. In the 16th century, if you referred to royalty or nobility as thou instead of you, you would be promptly escorted to a dungeon without trial. Thou was reserved for family members, intimate friends, animals, and those clearly beneath one in station; to use it for someone who didn't fit within one of those categories was considered a grave insult. The familiar term was used for God because of the view of God as Daddy, a term of intimacy.

I don’t have much to add to the original topic. I rarely go commando to begin with and when attending church like to dress up a little. It has nothing to do with being pretentious; I just like to get into dress pants the same as I would if visiting my grandparents. I had worked in a mine for a few years and I’ll take almost any chance to not look like a dirtball. (Heck, I used to go to fancy restaurants straight from work in a pair of carharts and a dirty (white?) Haines T-shirt.) I do not think that going commando is a problem. If you are doing it for the attention and gyrating your hips to get it swinging while pointing to it so as the other parishioners notice while humming tunes you would hear at the strippers you may want to reconsider your actions. If, on the other hand, you have banished the underwear for comfort reasons and you are a little discrete I cannot see a problem.

I have to admit that I am always interested to see how many of this forums “regular” members attend a church. I guess when I ran across it I had never really given the idea that it would be a community with such a large percentage of people professing their faith any thought.

where's the "biggotry (sic) and hatred" in my posts? I have a well-developed sense of irony and thus I find the "concept of christianity" rather amusing. if you can't deal with someone laughing at your religion, maybe you need to reassess your convictions some.

my respect ain't given; it's earned. christianity fails THAT examination big time.

Geents:
I didn't mean to create such a firestorm with my comments. Just reporting what we Presbyterians most commonly do. Amen

Well IMHO, I don't think GOD gives a rats ass one way or the other if you go commando or not to church, just as long as you go.