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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up Catholic and attended an Episcopalian church for a few years as an adult.[b] It felt like a country club with communion thrown in once a week.[/b] I was originally drawn to it for its lack of extreme positions on anything, but it all just felt pretty bland after a while. Lots of rich old white people who live in the nicest neighborhood of a very segregated city trying by really hard to appear to care about contemporary social issues and happy to throw money at them, but ultimately just looking for opportunities to trade business cards under the guise of fellowship.

But that’s an isolated impression and obviously all Episcopalian churches are not like that. [/quote]

Yes, I agree.  A lot of phoning it in.  Going to church for the social aspect, and the sake of going, but nothing too deep.

I decided I didn't need a social gathering and stopped organized religion altogether.  I still believe in God, grew up Catholic (13 years Catholic school), then tried many other religions before scrapping church altogether.

As far as school goes, some people send their kids simply for the education, with a big emphasis on ignoring the religious aspect of education.  Parochial schools are more affordable private schools.[/quote]

That's funny because it was exactly the opposite to my experience.
I grew up Catholic, and felt like everyone was going to church and CCD and recieving the sacraments because they "had to" or because grandma would be mad or whatever.
I finally switched to a wonderful Episcopalian church and for the first time, met people who were at church and Sunday school beacuse they *wanted* to be there and truly cared about growing and living out their faith.

Clearly....  every parish is going to be different in that regard, I'm sure.

But OP, my guess is those people chose the school because they wanted the academics (or sports facilities, or private classes, or whatever....)  and didn't think too much about the faith aspect, and now that they're actually living life in the school are regretting their decision in going to a religious school.[/quote]

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