What say you wise people?

[keyslover]

DD1 goes to a church based preschool and has for the past 2 years. DH is former catholic. I am nothing. We are both fine with the preschool and I am more open to the religious aspect than DH. I think it is good to learn about religions.

Tomorrow there is a block party at the church. We have been out of town the past 2 years. We have gotten an invite from preschool so we are welcome. There will be food, drink, games and more importantly a bounce house.

I see no reason not to go. DH thinks they will be hard selling us for the church ( they never have before and pretty sure a block party isn't the place to do so).

I think he is being an ass and is still haunted by his catholic upbringing.

Or am I being too breezy about this?

What say you?

[Deleted]

I would go. H can stay home.

[bonquiqui]

I say go if you want, and I doubt it will be too preachy.  I am so not a church kind of girl, so I wouldn't go, but maybe that's how us former catholics roll.  lol  

[hisno1girl]

I think it depends on what kind of church it is.

I'm Catholic and when we have our block parties or festivals, it's all about games for the kids, good food, and the beer tent. We do not try and recruit anyone.

Fun, food, beer, that's all.

[Deleted]

I bet it'll be fine. I've never been to a religious preschool where they tried to get you to attend their church. They generally just ask for lots and lots of money.

[CurlyQ284]

I would go. If it gets too much like a marketing ploy you can duck out early.

[cuddlyevil]

Go. It will be fun.

We are non-Catholics in a Catholic school. DD is in the second grade, which is the year they start teaching more for confirmation. They separate the Catholics and non-Catholics so there is no pressure.

The picnics have a prayer, that is about as religious as it gets.

[Booze Raccoon]

My kid has in her second year at a preschool which is of a different religion than we are.  They have never once included anything religious in the school events or even the curriculum.  

PS - I am Catholic and I've never in all of my 41 years seen the church try to sell itself to anyone.  We don't need to solicit members like a newer church does.

[keyslover]

Thanks. I think he was just being an ass. I fully intend on going with the girls.

It is a covenant church, honestly i have no clue what that even means.

Everyone is nice and no one sells the church in anyway. I am not sure when the bug crawled up his butt to make him think this blok party with cotton candy and a bounce house was the time there were going to start.

[kirra]

I would go. I doubt they'll push you to join the church, but if they do you can always leave.

[idoinjuly]

My dd goes to a Church of Christ preschool and we've never been hard sold to attend their services. Not even soft sold.

[livinitup]

In my experience, Catholics don't hard sell. For all of the fun organized events I've ever been to, I've NEVER seen anything close to a sell. Maybe an opening prayer if I got there early. Maybe.

We did Catholic preschool and it was extremely light on the Catholic push.

[sonrisa]

I don't know that it would be a hard sell, as much as a soft sell. If it is for the church rather than the preschool specifically, I'd expect at least a few people to come up and ask if you wanted to start attending services. If you are comfortable saying "No thanks. We are here because our kid attends the preschool," then go.

[chickadee77]

Everyone is assuming it's a catholic preschool - I guess I didn't see that in the OP. If so, I wouldn't worry overly much. Now if it's a more fundamental-type religion preschool, maaaayyybe, lol.