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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We joined many years ago. I didn't jive with mainstream organized religion so I thought this would  be good. We had young kids and they had a Sunday school program and life cycle type celebrations.

In the end, I realized that basically it was just, well, another organized religion. They were happy to have families join- more income coming in because there was a building and salaries to pay. I had no real beef with anything, but yeah, the kids were out of control in the Sunday school classes it seemed- that was a thing like anywhere, and my kids didn't like having to go-  and, yes,  there were little cliques just like any church, etc., nothing weird or over the top but I had to ask myself,  why are we even doing this? Our religion ended up being no religion, and for the next three decades we were fine with that. [/quote]

Sounds like the answer to "why are we even doing this" was to fit in with people going to church on Sundays and you decided it wasn't worth to your family.[/quote]
No, not at all. It was an experiment. I was not a Christian to begin with. My husband and I came from 2 different religious traditions which caused a bit of a cultural problem within our families of origin, with several siblings totally  involved in serious  religious belief and practice. Neither of us were heavily into our family of origin's religion, as we were agnostic/ atheist.  When the cousins and friends of our kids started  constant conversations with our kids about religion,the bible, etc., we were quite happy to explain that these were not our beliefs, but frankly, society  in the 80s and 90s wasn't as flexible as we would have hoped with regard to this type of non practice. We thought something like the Ethical Society would give them a community they could relate to.  Families came from all over, no one lived together in any local  real community for relationships to develop, although I'm sure there were some that did along the way. There wasn't really any body of concept or belief that superseded what we were already teaching the kids. We didn't feel the need to congregate over it all in the end.

There was a lot of $$ required,  as in any congregation,  to  keep it all going, and that was a large and continual focus. There were many pleasant things, I have no complaints,  but sometimes not being a religion still becomes an organized religion, and we learned that. Our kids are still not involved in religion, they have their own kids, and now no one really cares. We were, and are, just iconoclasts, more acceptable now than  before. [/quote]

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