Yeah, I wouldn't even consider myself protestant. It was more about finding a church that actually took the time to organize w/ local charities. I'd checked out a different protestant church and all they really did was that canned food drive stuff around the holidays. The most interesting bit was the people who actually do the charity work through the church I'm at are some of the least religious members. No one stands around praying at job sites or feels the need to virtue signal and talk about god constantly. When you work with different charities you end up w/ completely different groups of people all the time. Doing it through the church basically lets you do different stuff w/ the same core group of people. One guys got a mouth like a sailor and is constantly telling the pastor some of the dirtiest jokes you've ever heard just to get him to laugh at shit he probably shouldn't be. In a Roman Catholic setting you'd probably catch endless shit for talking to a priest like that. It's wild how different it is.
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Yeah, I wouldn't even consider myself protestant. It was more about finding a church that actually took the time to organize w/ local charities. I'd checked out a different protestant church and all they really did was that canned food drive stuff around the holidays. The most interesting bit was the people who actually do the charity work through the church I'm at are some of the least religious members. No one stands around praying at job sites or feels the need to virtue signal and talk about god constantly. When you work with different charities you end up w/ completely different groups of people all the time. Doing it through the church basically lets you do different stuff w/ the same core group of people. One guys got a mouth like a sailor and is constantly telling the pastor some of the dirtiest jokes you've ever heard just to get him to laugh at shit he probably shouldn't be. In a Roman Catholic setting you'd probably catch endless shit for talking to a priest like that. It's wild how different it is.
I consider myself a 'spiritual' person, as I said. I never returned to church more or less because I married a woman who did Assembly of God, and as I said, I was raised Catholic. She never really attempted to talk me into going to her church, and I did the same. She went to church for some time after we were married, but though she was into it before we married, she never got into it heavily since. Mostly laziness on both our parts, I suppose. She did take my girls from time to time, but like I said, it was sporadic.
I do think I should've gotten my girls a bit more education in the religious area, but we also taught them right from wrong ourselves over the years, so both turned out to be good kids. Neither is religious now, but occasionally I see a bit of curiosity in them when they ask me about something bible related or whatever. That's why I wish I or my wife had done more in that area, thought it doesn't seem to be a big detriment to either.
I'm glad to hear you're getting something out of your experience. That's the best of both worlds, when you can make the wife happy and feel good about it at the same time. All sides of my family were Catholic ... an Austrian, German, Irish, and Bosnian Croatian mutt, I've never even thought of a different path if I ever chose to return. LOL