Church

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"Nooo, Mom, I want to sleep in!"
"Honey, get up. A few extra hours in bed is not worth eternal damnation."

-An exchange that occurs in millions of households every Sunday morning

A church is a building in which people belonging to a religion meet to perform some of their rituals.

Commonly these rituals occur in churches:

  • Baptisms
  • The Eucharist
  • Weddings
  • Organized prayer
  • Goat sacrifice
  • Funerals
  • Fleecing money from the gullible

It can also refer to a given religious denomination, as in "The Anglican Church" or "The Church of Scientology".



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