Depends on the church. Some churches like the bigger Baptist/Independent Baptist ones have two services, one at 8, Sunday School at 9:30 and the Second Service at around 10:45 and then evening services at around 6. Most other Baptist/non-denominational/independent Baptist churches usually just have Sunday School at 9:30, one Morning Service at 10:30 and then Evening service and Youth Group in the evening. It varies.
Catholics have multiple times for mass during the day. There’s usually some earlier ones, and then some later in the afternoon.
Gadalia
Most of the churches I’ve been to (and I’ve been to upwards of 16 in the past 18 years) have two services, sometimes around 9 and 11, sometimes 8:30 and 10, etc. A few have had three. Goodness gracious.
lauren
I’m not sure I’d say USUALLY. I never ran into such a thing until I lived in a large college town (where yes, there was something crazy like 5, 7 or 9.) Also ‘student suppers’ before and after some of those. I was just saying the other day, I’m not sure going to church taught me to love Jesus but it DID teach me to love chili!
I suspect the church Joyce goes too has multiple services too. But you fail to understand the mentality of the religiously brainwashed. Which I like to call the all or nothing Christians. You wake up go to the morning service then you go to Sunday school then you go to the late morning service then you go have lunch then you com back for afternoon bible study then you go to the late afternoon prayer meeting then you go to the evening service then you go home and have a late dinner before bed. Some churches even provide lunch and people spend the entire day at the church. Throw in Wednesday night services Deccan meetings, prayer meetings, and other absurdities and you can go to church EVERY DAY.
Joyce certainly strikes me as coming from an “all or nothing” Christian family. She was home schooled after all. I’m not trying to knock Christianity it has some very good teachings, but some people take the road that either all of the Bible is true or none of it is and since some of it is right they follow all of it blindly. Or rather they follow their particular minister’s views on what it all says literally.
The most harmful part of such an upbringing is that it creates an inability to understand how anyone else can live differently. Often you either end up a total slave to you upbringing or you reject it utterly to sometimes destructive ends. A few lucky people break away without breaking themselves and find their own path without leaving their family in ruins, but it’s hard to do since often families go to extreme means to ensure that their relatives won’t “burn in hell.” It’s a form of love and in some ways should be admired but it’s twisted and can leave deep emotional and psychological scars on individuals depending on the situation.
Orfidius
I think your projecting your own issues onto a comic strip character, I was home schooled and brought up in what you might call an “all or nothing” christian home, I go to church at 9:45 and I’d say Joyce is just an early riser who is passionate about her faith. I also think you may have some flawed views of Christianity, I’d be happy to discuss it with you if you wanted to email me.
DaJoshMaster
Yeah, but this is Joyce, she is a deep end Fundie.
My current church has four services, so even if you don’t get up until early afternoon you can still catch the 6:30 service. My last church only had one service, but it was Friday night.
I think she just naturally assumes that everyone goes to church on sundays unless told otherwise. The same church at the same time no less. She saw that poor Billie had forgotten to set her alarm and decided to do the neighborly thing and lend a helping hand.
Yeah the girls are probably the main reason to go to church as a teenager. Though now I’m picturing you as That Guy who went with a list of church-appropriate pickup lines to try out on all the girls, Willis.
fellixe
“You must be a pillar of salt ’cause I want a Lot to be with you.”
Temple services were on Friday 7-9pm all year or Saturday10-12 during the fall, winter and spring any way my family only went for High holidays and maybe 4-5 other times A year for שַׁבָּת services the synagogue was a half an hour to 45 minute commute so it wasn’t always convenient to go every week. In college the Hillel offered services from 7-845pm, I didn’t go every week maybe once a month or once every two months and only if a friend happened to want to go services.
I went to a religiously-affiliated university.
Despite the official connection, the student body was not that much more religious than average, and featured about a typical level of religious diversity.
Thus, our church was an on-campus chapel that only had evening services; maybe three people who weren’t students went, and they knew they’d never get any students to a morning service.
One of the best parts of losing my religion has been sleeping until whenever I feel like on sunday. Which is sometimes like 2pm. And then I wake up and go get some lunch, but not Chik-Fil-A, because they’re not open, even though my brain has some pavlovian response that makes me only crave chicken sandwiches on the one day I can’t have them… …wait what were we talking about?
My co-worker and I usually work on the weekends, and we ALWAYS get cravings for Chik-fil-A on the Sundays we work together. We always laugh about it as well, but deep down my heart breaks a little each Sunday.
169 thoughts on “Church”
Jen Aside
That was the best thing about our church. We got to sleep in until… *10*
Gundi
See… that’s around three hours earlier than a college kid wakes up on the weekend.
Digidestined of Trust (Tim)
Depends on the church. Some churches like the bigger Baptist/Independent Baptist ones have two services, one at 8, Sunday School at 9:30 and the Second Service at around 10:45 and then evening services at around 6. Most other Baptist/non-denominational/independent Baptist churches usually just have Sunday School at 9:30, one Morning Service at 10:30 and then Evening service and Youth Group in the evening. It varies.
Henry
Catholics have multiple times for mass during the day. There’s usually some earlier ones, and then some later in the afternoon.
Gadalia
Most of the churches I’ve been to (and I’ve been to upwards of 16 in the past 18 years) have two services, sometimes around 9 and 11, sometimes 8:30 and 10, etc. A few have had three. Goodness gracious.
lauren
I’m not sure I’d say USUALLY. I never ran into such a thing until I lived in a large college town (where yes, there was something crazy like 5, 7 or 9.) Also ‘student suppers’ before and after some of those. I was just saying the other day, I’m not sure going to church taught me to love Jesus but it DID teach me to love chili!
Kaolla
I suspect the church Joyce goes too has multiple services too. But you fail to understand the mentality of the religiously brainwashed. Which I like to call the all or nothing Christians. You wake up go to the morning service then you go to Sunday school then you go to the late morning service then you go have lunch then you com back for afternoon bible study then you go to the late afternoon prayer meeting then you go to the evening service then you go home and have a late dinner before bed. Some churches even provide lunch and people spend the entire day at the church. Throw in Wednesday night services Deccan meetings, prayer meetings, and other absurdities and you can go to church EVERY DAY.
Joyce certainly strikes me as coming from an “all or nothing” Christian family. She was home schooled after all. I’m not trying to knock Christianity it has some very good teachings, but some people take the road that either all of the Bible is true or none of it is and since some of it is right they follow all of it blindly. Or rather they follow their particular minister’s views on what it all says literally.
The most harmful part of such an upbringing is that it creates an inability to understand how anyone else can live differently. Often you either end up a total slave to you upbringing or you reject it utterly to sometimes destructive ends. A few lucky people break away without breaking themselves and find their own path without leaving their family in ruins, but it’s hard to do since often families go to extreme means to ensure that their relatives won’t “burn in hell.” It’s a form of love and in some ways should be admired but it’s twisted and can leave deep emotional and psychological scars on individuals depending on the situation.
Orfidius
I think your projecting your own issues onto a comic strip character, I was home schooled and brought up in what you might call an “all or nothing” christian home, I go to church at 9:45 and I’d say Joyce is just an early riser who is passionate about her faith. I also think you may have some flawed views of Christianity, I’d be happy to discuss it with you if you wanted to email me.
DaJoshMaster
Yeah, but this is Joyce, she is a deep end Fundie.
AJBulldis
My current church has four services, so even if you don’t get up until early afternoon you can still catch the 6:30 service. My last church only had one service, but it was Friday night.
Plasma Mongoose
Joyce, that’s not Dotty.
brasca1
Yeah. Dorothy agreed to go to church because she’s got a guilty conscious. Billie gets hangovers not guilt trips.
ryan
this week, joyce is trying to wake up billie for church. NEXT week it’s dorothy’s turn.
Mkvenner
Go shove your beliefs down someone else’s throat. I’m sleeping.
Mkvenner
Do it again and I’ll rip your face off.
Tristan J
“First I will carefully and calmly explain my atheist humanist philosophy to Joyce. Then, I will murder her.”
begbert2
I’m uncertain that Billie is an atheist.
Tristan J
That was a hypothetical reaction to Joyce waking me up for church. We already know what Billie would do.
I pretty much assume Billie is a Scientologist.
Rowen Morland
Is there a First Church of Jack Daniels?
HMRC4EVR
They time-share the same building as the Church of Fonzie.
A Dude
Yep. It’s called AA…
Bill M.
Don’t know… but I’m pretty sure the use of real wine in communion is real high on her list of reasons to choose which church to go to.
Henry
You mean “Do it again and I’ll rip your FAAAAAAAAAAAAACE off.”
Remember who’s saying this! 🙂
Michelle J Caboose
More like:
Billie: “Do that again and I’ll rip your face off!”
Joyce: “But, church–”
Bille: “FAAACE!”
Mkvenner
Do that again and rip off your skullcap.
Mkvenner
…..maybe
Wonder Wig
I thought it was Dorothy who signed up for church duty? O.o
dchorror
Doesn’t mean she has to go it alone. Joyce is being considerate.
I think…
gangler
I think she just naturally assumes that everyone goes to church on sundays unless told otherwise. The same church at the same time no less. She saw that poor Billie had forgotten to set her alarm and decided to do the neighborly thing and lend a helping hand.
Moonshine McGee
Gotta give Billie some credit, she probably has a more subdued reaction here than I would in a similar situation.
Gundi
A lack of sleep with do that to you. Fact: If nobody got enough sleep their would be world peace… Well, World Crankiness.
TemplarKnight
I dunno, depending on how high those bunk beds are, she may have just killed Joyce.
gangler
When she finally wakes up she’ll see what she’s done and shrug.
Kernanator
She’s used to her antics. Clearly Joyce will have to step up her game by waking her up another way.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jUaufp2cXeg
You know what to do, Willis. You know what to do.
Plasma Mongoose
Maybe Joyce already copped a feel, did you ever think of that? 😀
Kernanator
😀 I’ll be in my… wait, can’t touch myself, Ceiling Joyce will eat me. D:
Jetstream
Ceiling Joyce is CLEARLY peeking through a hole in a WALL, not a ceiling. My faith is destroyed.
Kernanator
Either way, HER STARE IS CREEPY. SHE’S LOOKING INTO MY SOUL.
Plasma Mongoose
That’s because the white from Joyce’s mouth is the gateway to Yog-Sothoth.
Michelle J Caboose
Joyce doesn’t want your soul — she wants your faaace.
Plasma Mongoose
AWESOME EDIT, DUDETTE!
thomas0comer
It’s too early. I myself am not quite awake enough to separate people’s bones from their flesh at that time of day.
Tumbleweed
and then the comic ends there.
Doctor_Who
Damn straight, Billie. For my church we never had to get up before 10:00.
Seven AM on a Sunday can go straight to hell, and I’ll gladly go with it if it means another 3 hours of sleep.
Ryan
Showing more restraint than I would.
Shira
I don’t know if I could have dealt with Joyce’s face in panel 2.
Doctor_Who
I’m getting “Osaka wielding a knife” vibes from her.
Plasma Mongoose
You mean LIKE THIS?
Rognik
It’s like her mouth is a giant, white void that’s going to swallow me…
3DSarge
I went to a church that had saturday afternoon services. 4:30-5:45(ish), then partying all night and sleeping in the next day…it was glorious.
David
Our church had a Saturday evening service and then two Sunday morning services. We often attended all three!
I was okay with it. The girls my age were cute.
fellixe
Wow. Only time I ever went to all services each weekend was when I worked for the church.
Joraiem
Yeah the girls are probably the main reason to go to church as a teenager. Though now I’m picturing you as That Guy who went with a list of church-appropriate pickup lines to try out on all the girls, Willis.
fellixe
“You must be a pillar of salt ’cause I want a Lot to be with you.”
Tucker
“Good thing I have practise repenting!”
Plasma Mongoose
“I got a king-side king James here, wanna get biblical?”
Bill M.
“I’m praying for you, not just in the concerned for your soul meaning.”
“Want to be the Eve to my Adam?”
mechaqua
Temple services were on Friday 7-9pm all year or Saturday10-12 during the fall, winter and spring any way my family only went for High holidays and maybe 4-5 other times A year for שַׁבָּת services the synagogue was a half an hour to 45 minute commute so it wasn’t always convenient to go every week. In college the Hillel offered services from 7-845pm, I didn’t go every week maybe once a month or once every two months and only if a friend happened to want to go services.
Pat
I went to a religiously-affiliated university.
Despite the official connection, the student body was not that much more religious than average, and featured about a typical level of religious diversity.
Thus, our church was an on-campus chapel that only had evening services; maybe three people who weren’t students went, and they knew they’d never get any students to a morning service.
mnk
I love that Billie isn’t even Joyce’s roommate.
dchorror
Her roommate is probably likely to do worse.
SDHero
One of the best parts of losing my religion has been sleeping until whenever I feel like on sunday. Which is sometimes like 2pm. And then I wake up and go get some lunch, but not Chik-Fil-A, because they’re not open, even though my brain has some pavlovian response that makes me only crave chicken sandwiches on the one day I can’t have them… …wait what were we talking about?
Tristan J
I bet one of the worst parts of it was getting a goofy 90s song stuck in your head whenever you brought it up 😛
Historyman68
“citing artistic differences, the band broke up in May”
Oh, a different goofy 90s song?
Tristan J
… If you like?
Melissa
My co-worker and I usually work on the weekends, and we ALWAYS get cravings for Chik-fil-A on the Sundays we work together. We always laugh about it as well, but deep down my heart breaks a little each Sunday.
Plasma Mongoose
Billie’s face in panel 4 makes me wonder if she’s recently taken up meth.
The HellJack
Honestly, I didn’t think teeth could get THAT big.
She’s like Nosferatu extending her fangs, but instead of going for the jugular she melts your heart with a HUGE SMILE!
Sporkaganza
This is exactly how I would react.
dchorror
I want that second panel as a poster.
MontyPla
My roommate last year did this to me. Once.
I literally punched him.
Later I explained I’m atheist and that it’s a terrible idea to wake me up before noon on a night where I didn’t sleep until 6 am.
Chase
That would have been my reaction exactly.
mechaqua