thread: 2005-08-09 : The New Open House 2: Religion
On 2005-08-11, ScottM wrote:
Baptized Catholic, but never attended services as a child.
When dad remarried (I was 10), we went to uber-conservative Methodist church. I gave it a go and kept chunks that seemed good, but as a whole the story seemed to have too many flaws. There was a year or so of teenage "prove yourself God", which didn't happen, so I drifted away. It became clear that Dad was in the church mostly because he enjoyed singing in the choir, which undercut my enthusiasm.
After his divorce, we gave up church again, which had devolved to mere obligation. Every once in a while someone will point me at something inspiring (last was Mere Christianity), but I'm not really looking for religion, so I rarely stick with anything for long.
Despite all that, many of the ideals (compassion, feed the poor, stewardship of the earth, etc.) remain important to me—I've decided that they're "right" and don't need a religion to back that up.
