[blueerica]

Ahh, and this is why I am agnostic.

On the other hand, a few times I have had the pleasure of going with one side of my family to this really groovy church that was the opposite of denomination. While the congregation was predominantly Christian, I met a Buddhist family and a few Jewish people that chose to attend. They talked about spirituality, and did use some scripture, but it wasn't in the brimstone and hellfire way I'd remembered from my childhood. Oh, and they took pop songs (and by "pop" I don't mean Britney Spears, I mean The Beatles, Rolling Stones, some older than that, some newer than that) and non-Christian poetry and related it to spirituality.

I always go waiting for the cult aspect to come out... it always seems too good to be true. I've had so many bad experiences with organized religion. But, I've yet to be pounced upon there.

All-in-all, the most bad-assed church I've ever gone to.