Have you ever walked out in a middle of a sermon?

No, but I felt like it once. I’m a Catholic and I do go to church and believe in God and all that. But there was this particular deacon at our church who seemed to not be able to stop talking about homosexuality. And when he would mention it in something that had nothing to do with it, I felt really angry and wanted to walk out. My mom was angry too.

Something tells me someone had a little repressing going on there…

One time and I felt horrible, only because I couldn’t sit there and hold my head up high. Instead, I took my daughter and waited in the car for my grandmother. I had gone to her church – a very small church and not a denomination I normally attend, I tend to find them very backwards in their thoughts, but we went for grandma.

Mid-sermon, he started talking about divorced women, wayward women, trying to raise children on their own. How they are sinners and should reconcile with their husbands and do the right thing – get back together. Ask him for forgiveness. Maybe things could be better.

Considering I was the only woman that was divorced, with a child – at the sermon, I was very aware that he was preaching to me. Also the constant stare directed towards me, yeah, that gave it away, too.

I asked my grandmother what she had said to him. She explained that she just wanted him to pray for us, that we could find some peace. I never went back to her church.

It was only a few minutes in after a song when they began speaking strangely.No one was speaking in an understandable language but rather “in tongues” as they called it. There were lots of grumbles, grunts and jibber jabbering like a drunk irishman.I RAN out as fast as possible. Scary place.

I did once drunk, announcing as I walked out, “This is a buncha bullshit you fuckin’ sheep.”

I still feel like the world’s biggest douche for doing it. I was young, dumb, and angry at everything. It is one of the very few things I wish I could take back form my past.

Yeah, while in a rather conservative catholic church, with my mother and best friend who was jewish, and at an early age, I whispered something funny to him, and he burst out laughing, and then I started laughing and I farted embarrassingly loud, and then he laughed even louder; then my mother made sure we left the sermon very quickly.

When I was in Paris we ended up at Notre Dame right when mass was starting. I ended up walking out about 30 minutes into it.

I’ve been carried out. I don’t know if I’ve ever gone voluntarily.

I’ve definitely slipped out during the sermon to pretend to go to the bathroom but really just to get my blood flowing because I can’t stay awake. That’s usually only during really long services, like on High Holy Days. Reform Jewish sermons are usually pretty interesting to me.

I’ve never been to a sermon, so no.

I once passed out during a christening. It was really hot and I was really tired. I woke up on the floor surrounded by concerned family members.

Yes, I felt like I was going to throw up.
Not because of the sermon, though!

I did once because I was about to vomit. (Catholic Mass-sit, stand, kneel,)

I almost did this last Sunday but the preacher is going to be performing my wedding ceremony so I figured I’d take one for the one team. ;-)

It was all about end times doom and gloom- everyone left feeling like shit.

It was completely void of hope.

Doesn’t really fit the whole overarching theme of redemption and restoration.

I’ve never walked out in the middle of a sermon but I’ve disrupted several of them by no fault of my own. It was a possession thing that I had no control over. Holy Water helped.

yes and yes, I did

No, but I do remember my mom waking me up in church one day because i was lying across the pew and my arm was hanging down into the aisle. I guess she didn’t want people to step on my fingers during communion.

In high school, it was generally right after communion that i would leave and go smoke a cigarette with a girl i knew.

No, I have never walked out in the middle of a sermon. I have been known to zone out in the middle of a sermon, and my children won’t sit with me because they say I snore, but I have never actually walked out.

I do recall several truly awful sermons (one about the “evil rising tide of ecumenism in the world today” and another about Hell-fire and damnation at the funeral service of a very gentle and kind man) and I have never set foot in any of those churches again.

And actually I find “speaking in tongues” rather amusing. It reminds me of watching William Hung singing “She Bangs” on American Idol. But snake handling isn’t fair to the snakes.

I walk out of sermons all the time. When I do go to church, I have my own reasons, that have nothing to do with the show going on.

@Darwin Yeah! Go snakes!