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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I were to ever switch religions, (I'm Catholic), and wanted to maintain much of what you seem to value though with a more universally accepting all approach I'd be taking a hard look at the Episcopalian Church. [/quote]

Huh?  The Episcopal Church is still an Orthodox Christian church, no matter how some of their bishops run off at the mouth.[/quote]

The Episcopal church is usually very liberal.  Some individual Catholic parishes are somewhat liberal too, but everyone knows what the rules are and that they are breaking them.  Not so with the Episcopalians, who have fewer rules and less dogmatic beliefs.

I agree with pp - a switch from Catholicism to Episcopalian is a good move and one which many Catholics have made.[/quote]

I think the Episcopal church is probably church (parish? Congregation? what do they call it?) dependent.  I am a liberal atheist with a spouse who wants to attend and the church we found that works for both of us is Episcopalian, but I imagine that has a lot to do with the particular minister.  Essentially I need a Chruch that believes and preaches the teachings of Christ (ie the how to live as a better person in *this* world) while still accepting people like me who question (in my case flat out don't believe) in the rest of it, and so far that is the vibe I get from the church we have been attending.

Of course we also haven't been through a political season at the church yet, so it's possible they may have social positions I'm not comfortable with, but so far this particular church has not struck me as particularly conservative. [/quote]

Many, perhaps the majority, of Episcopal churches are extremely liberal and have parishioners and even staff who do not espouse the traditional beliefs of Christianity.[/quote]

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