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Catholic. (However, if there had been a Church of England in late 1800's rural Iowa, all of my family would still be Church of England).
No, I stopped going to church at age 16, and began to attend the Unitarian church and joined liberal religious youth.
That happened during my educational process, when I discovered that the Inquisition had occurred. I was horrified by it, and rejected the religion because of it.
I lost interest in the Unitarians largely because of an Eastern European youth leader, who wanted us to sleep at the church overnight inside a sensory deprivation tank, and who wanted to organize us into a protest march at my father's place of work. After I informed my father of the planned march, (which I did not attend), that Eastern European youth leader disappeared. No one knew what happened to him or to his family. They just disappeared without a word.
I married right out of high school, and the judge would not allow an annulment two months later. After that, I had no formal religious home. I could not go back to Catholicism, because, at the time I assumed that because I had been divorced I was excommunicated.
No, I stopped going to church at age 16, and began to attend the Unitarian church and joined liberal religious youth.
That happened during my educational process, when I discovered that the Inquisition had occurred. I was horrified by it, and rejected the religion because of it.
I lost interest in the Unitarians largely because of an Eastern European youth leader, who wanted us to sleep at the church overnight inside a sensory deprivation tank, and who wanted to organize us into a protest march at my father's place of work. After I informed my father of the planned march, (which I did not attend), that Eastern European youth leader disappeared. No one knew what happened to him or to his family. They just disappeared without a word.
I married right out of high school, and the judge would not allow an annulment two months later. After that, I had no formal religious home. I could not go back to Catholicism, because, at the time I assumed that because I had been divorced I was excommunicated.