It's definitely easier to walk out in theory than in practice. Besides, I bet part of you wanted to stick around to see what kind of oh-my-god-I-can't-believe-he-just-said-that sort of things he'd say next.
Dan's mom has been wanting to go to church, so we've been taking her (a Baptist) to All Souls Unitarian for the past 2 Sundays and she's liked it just fine. The music is beautiful. Even my atheist husband can appreciate the sermons. And I swear that nearly all of my friends in Tulsa who go to church anywhere go there when they go. Too, living in church-on-every-corner Tulsa, it's going to be imperative that our kid grow up with "ammunition" to deal with all the more fundamentally extreme Christians she'll encounter. So I think that's a great place for her to learn how to understand the differences she's going to find out there in the real world.
Hannah and I went to a Unitarian church in Shreveport while Shane was deployed last time. I enjoy them very much. It only works while Shane is not here, though, because he can't abide them. You had made a post earlier about what is considered socially acceptable behavior in Alabama. Coming from a religious background as you did, did you ever experience something along the lines of families attending services together being almost 'required'? I feel like Shane would rather not attend that church at all than have to go in and tell the people I was at a different church. It would be easier for him to have the church pray for me as an unbeliever than to tell them I was a Unitarian.
My mother-in-law has said after 3 visits to the Unitarian church that she likes it okay but that it's just a feel-good church. I'm wondering what she wants in a church. A good dose of weekly condemnation? After talking to my Baptist grandma this weekend, I think so.
I don't think I grew up with the idea that families had to attend the same church. In fact, we all went to separate churches the last few years I was home.
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Dan's mom has been wanting to go to church, so we've been taking her (a Baptist) to All Souls Unitarian for the past 2 Sundays and she's liked it just fine. The music is beautiful. Even my atheist husband can appreciate the sermons. And I swear that nearly all of my friends in Tulsa who go to church anywhere go there when they go. Too, living in church-on-every-corner Tulsa, it's going to be imperative that our kid grow up with "ammunition" to deal with all the more fundamentally extreme Christians she'll encounter. So I think that's a great place for her to learn how to understand the differences she's going to find out there in the real world.
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I don't think I grew up with the idea that families had to attend the same church. In fact, we all went to separate churches the last few years I was home.
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