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NoHateJustLove

NoHateJustLove

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Hello. I was brought up Protestant and broke from that in my teens/early 20's to explore everything else (mainly paganism). I was attracted to the Roman Catholic Church because I still believed in Jesus Christ as the son of God, and I figured if I was going to be Christian I would go to the 'start'. I studied and converted in 2005. I still love the RCC but do not like a lot of the politics. I especially don't agree with the stance regarding homosexual relationships/marriage, the ordination of women, and sex/contraception. I believed in my heart that if I wanted to be a ~true~ Christian in the RCC I had to believe those things and tried very hard to convince and "pray" myself into it. It did not happen.

Because of this I have stopped attending Church the last several months. I have started looking into the Unitarian Universalist religion because I could still identify as a Catholic (which I do, and think I will continue to do so - but not as concretely as I had previously) while being a member. I have a family and want them to attend a 'church' growing up. It is important to me. I also don't want them to ever feel like I did growing up (like questioning was wrong and if you don't believe the problem must be with you). I want them to feel free to question things or even explore other areas of faith/lack of faith. I want that for myself as well.

I want to stand before God having done what I best could to truly follow and know Him with all my being.

I hope this wasn't too long. Thanks for letting me introduce myself!
 
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Breathe

Breathe

Hostis humani generis
Welcome to RF!

I too think that UU would be good for you. You're lucky having UU churches near you; I don't think there are very many at all in the UK. Have you looked at Methodism or Anglicanism? I do like Anglo-Catholicism, and it's quite liberal, so it may be something that you may like? :)
 
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hodu

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I'm new here too. This is my first post but I thought I'd let you know that one of the main things in Messianic Judaism is questioning. We have no problem whatsoever taking a passage or a doctrine and searching to see if it's true (or what we've been taught about it in mainstream is true). You might want to look into it, we believe in the Messiah but very little else of christianity.....just thought I'd let you know.
 
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