I always feel like it's necessary to remind people that I grew up a post Vatican II Catholic a lot of people i went to high school with were not only not Catholic but not Christian and the only group I was taught to dislike were episcopalians
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I usually just tell people "yeah, I did 13 in Catholic school as an Episcopalian, so I was dual-classing," but for bonus points, I did it in Massachusetts, so my bloviation is specialized in "heated political/ religious rhetoric, original 13 colonies style."
My tenth-grade English teacher talked her husband out of the seminary and was real serious about Sinners In the Hands of an Angry God etc. It stuck, LOL.
I was raised Episcopalian until I was around ten and I think my mom asked herself one day "Is this even a religion or just a pep rally for a bake sale?"
Sounds extremely familiar, except my mom kept going because of the volunteering and charity stuff. In retrospect the pastor a poster child for the ambiguously atheist priest. A bit of a hint that he gave me both Carl Sagan and His Dark Materials, aka The Gnostic Heresy: A Fantasy
I once told my dad (gay, ex-Catholic priest) that I was exploring episcopalianism and thought he should try out a service. His grip on the steering wheel as he fought down his fury. To him, not sleeping w the enemy was more important than than, ya know, sleeping w who he wanted judgement-free.
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