I was interested in go to church tomorrow for the first time in over a decade - mostly due to a recent breakup, and fuck it, why not? Unfortunately all the churches near me are either mega church subchains, or would likely be spewing hatred due to the other lovely holiday happening tomorrow.
While I expected the latter, I’m disappointed by the former. I’m curious to hear anybody’s experiences finding or having faith while having a distaste for capitalism.
I was raised Presbyterian and it was alright, very stereotypical Protestant church deal. I remember always doing this charity called Heifer International. You picked animals from a catalog and the org donated them to improvised people. We did a bake sale and bought people a water buffalo and a couple oxen. Really heavy handed white savior charities.
Hated that shit tbh (the general church service, stuffy clothes and an hour of hymns/sermon). My partner put me on to quakers and tbh they’re pretty tight. I went for the first time today, it’s mostly a long moment of silence and then people share sorrows and joys. People are united in being anti war there and they have good politics and do activism for Palestine.