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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DH was raised Baptist, but considers himself to be agnostic. I'm not religious, but I am somewhat traditional and DH agreed before we got married that our children would be raised Jewish. MIL lives in the south, and even though she's very open minded, she just hasn't had exposure to Jewish people. For instance, she wanted us to get married in a church, and I had to explain to her why that it's not appropriate. 
She seems to be so proud of her church and talks about the choir and performances they have there. I'm considering going one time with her, while DS is still young enough not to know what's going on and this really is a favor to MIL, since she wants to share this with us so badly. I'm just concerned that she will want to take DS to church regularly and doesn't understand that this will be confusing to him and not what we want him identifying with.

So, will going one time be enough to make her happy or will it open up a can of worms? 
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You won't get the Jesus cooties if you go, OP.

You're overthinking this. My Methodist church has long held interfaith activities with a local synagogue. Frankly, our society would benefit if we all sought to better understand the faiths of others so that we can work to find common ground rather than fight over differences.

BTW, something doesn't compute here... A Southern Baptist church doesn't do music. Period.[/quote]

Not sure where you're from.  I was raised Southern Baptist, and music was a huge part of the services, and has been in every southern Protestant church I've ever attended (whether majority white or black).  In fact, I was shocked at the first catholic service I attended, when music seemed to be such an afterthought.  My current Episcopal church has an outstanding music director, so I asked him what church he grew up in. Aure enough -- Southern Baptist.

For OP - it is not unusual for Southern churches to place great pride in their music, and they like sharing it with people of all different faiths. I would go.  [/quote]

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