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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in a very standard, mainline Protestant church.  So, religion has always felt pretty safe to me.  Probably as a result of that, I have very fond memories of all the times I stayed with other people and got taken along to their churches--Awana at the Baptist church, Bible school at a conservative evangelical church, Catholic mass, etc.  I was probably fortunate that I was never taken to any genuinely offensive religious event--no damnation and no snakes.

In college, I participated in a campus ministry group that visited lots of different religious groups, and as an adult, I've enjoyed going to Southern Baptist, Catholic, and Jewish weddings (in addition to many in my own religious tradition).  I even went to an old fashioned camp meeting revival with a friend in Georgia.

As a parent now, I'd probably be too afraid of offending anyone to take my kids' friends along to church with us, and that's too bad because I do think those experiences can be beneficial.  I'm sympathetic to the posters here who have had traumatic experiences, but I'm sad that the alternative seems to be to wall ourselves off from religious experiences different from our own.

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You can take my kid with you to church/temple/mosque/whatever!  I think it can be wonderful and welcoming and generous to share your culture with others.[/quote]

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