I was raised Unitarian, and although I haven't belonged to a congregation in the past 50 years, those values are embedded in my approach to life.
Similar. Raised by an authoritarian evangelical christian stepfather & a mother with a subversively simple approach to all these matters; her faith was honed while Bristol was bombed almost every night during her teens.
As a result, I now view all organized religion as a bureaucracy of spirituality forced harshly upon some very good ideas on how to live your life. I try my best to follow those ideals, while watching in horror as all these bureaucracies tear the world apart in the name of god.
My older sister, raised protestant in the US south, reminds me constantly the current state of the US is all about racism, making sure there's never another POC in the White House.
