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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I love the idea of bringing religious dialogue into school (I worry that since it can’t be talked about in so many realms, that it just “other-izes” anyone different). We have been so happy with our kids’ Episcopal school experience. It brings in ethics and awareness of all types of religions without being dogmatic and saying there is only one way to believe.

But as much as I appreciate the presence of religion, I just don’t think that I could pick a catholic school. I would worry too much about what they were being taught in religion classes and how the role of women, lack of respect for the complexity of abortion, and how gay kids who might be struggling would be treated.

If I couldn’t afford our episcopal school, our kids would have done public over a Catholic school. I fully recognize that many catholic schools offer great educations, but it just felt like I would be sacrificing my values in search of an independent school experience. [/quote]

I am a lapsed Christian, family was very Main Line protestant denominations, hardly bible thumping and I attended a church where we used to joke a certain Sunday every November was fur coat Sunday as that was the day the women would bring out their fur coats.

However, I did spend some time studying the history of Christianity from its earliest days, including the range of Christian theology. The one thing that has always been pretty clear from the get go and from the earliest days (at least within the first few centuries) is the concept that life begins at conception. How people call themselves good Christians and square this up with accepting abortion has always been one of the biggest hypocrisy if modern Christianity. I can accept abortion rights, but I don't call myself a good or meaningfully practicing Christian. You *cannot* be a good Christian and defend abortion. It's that simple. No, I don't mean the times when the mother's life is genuinely in danger, but the vast majority of abortions, which is what people really talk about when it comes to abortion. It's people like you who refuse any kind of compromise over abortion, so if your moral extends to killing babies... that's not very Christian is it?

I have to admit I don't find the modern Episcopalian church particularly "Christian." It has very little in common with the 2,000 years of Christian theology behind us and I'm not quite sure what its purpose is. Some people like the liturgy and that's all they really cared about. But I've listened to enough progressive - left sermons and preachings to make me openly wonder why they bother call themselves Christians when in reality, they really are not, because they ignore 99% of traditional theology as well as a substantial chunk of Jesus' teachings. Their mantra is effectively be whatever you think you are and God still loves you. That's not quite true. God may still love you, but it doesn't mean God wants you to pretend you're of the opposite gender, which would be in defiance of the body God gave to you. There's enormous holes in modern progressive "Christianity" which would probably be one of the major factors behind the staggering collapse in church attendance.

Even though I'm basically an atheist, I respect the Catholic theology a lot more. At a minimum, it makes much more sense than modern progressive Protestantism and the quasi cult of feel-good doerism purple haired progressives the Episcopalian church has become. [/quote]

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