Lapsed Episcopalianism

[dr_tectonic]

In a discussion about religion over on dpolicar's journal, I mentioned that I identify as "lapsed Episcopalian" -- which is to say, I'm an Episcopalian, but I don't go to church as often as I feel I ought -- and Dave asked if there was a story behind that, given that I used to identify as sorta-half-assed-nonpracticing-Mormon back in high school and early college.

There isn't really, but that didn't stop me from writing about it, and perhaps some of the prose will amuse, and regardless, it saves me from having to write more if I just re-use that content for today's journal entry, so I direct you to read more about it, should you be so inclined, here.

Owning one's comments, indeed.

Comments

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

I remember that you still thought of Mormon cosmological ideas and afterlife theories as being at least amusing when we were close to graduation, but I don't remember how seriously you took them.

Mormonism feels like a hard nut to crack to me.

For me, it's a fascinating blend of things I hate (institutionalized sexism and homophobia, a shocking history of institutionalized racism, a collection of testable historical hypotheses that turn out to be universally false, anti-intellectualism, etc.) with a bunch of things I really like (continuing revelation, priesthood of the believers, real community development among its members).

Few religions make me as frustrated.