Posted by CarolAnn on January 28, 2000, at 18:10:23
In reply to Religion and Depression, posted by Cass on January 27, 2000, at 19:31:39
Cass, when my husband and I decided to have a baby, we decided that we needed to have a church as a spiritual "base" to raise the child in. We both feel (and have read research which agrees) that a lot of the problems modern teens face stem from a lack of faith in any kind of Higher Power.
However, neither of us is interested in any kind of judgemental, holier then thou, dogma oriented, religion. We also both feel that the Bible cannot be taken literally, and wanted a church which would not teach it as literal.
Anyway, we ended up choosing the Methodist church as we have found it to be pretty much exactly what our faith required. It is nice to worship in a church where people of every "type" are accepted as God's children, and welcomed, with no attempts to convert anyone to any particular way of believing.CarolAnn
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