@Ken U Belevitt yeah, i was raised catholic, left as a teenager over abortion (and lgbt+ rights but mostly abortion), and now am a unitarian universalist
didn't finish this thought. where i was going with it is that even after leaving the church, i occasionally attended mass for a while as a social thing. i'd go at christmas, and went a couple times with my aunt and uncle the summer i lived with them, because it was good family time. also, i got to uu in part via universalism, the belief i alluded to earlier that everyone goes to heaven.
you find yourself letting go of any existing hang ups when you get older. I think it was a younger me that never would have believed I'd go back to college at 36
"You are likely thinking of the British cannonball embedded in the wall of Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Norfolk, Virginia. It was fired by British ships during the shelling of the city on January 1, 1776—months before the United States declared independence."
"You are likely thinking of the British cannonball embedded in the wall of Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Norfolk, Virginia. It was fired by British ships during the shelling of the city on January 1, 1776—months before the United States declared independence."