thegardendude 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 on Nostr: My mom, with whom I have a good relationship despite significant differences on ...

My mom, with whom I have a good relationship despite significant differences on issues of faith and politics, invited me to her church (the one I went to when I was younger, pre-deconstruction) for Easter, and I really don't want to go. Even though this particular church has made progress in disposing of some toxic theology and doctrine, I feel uneasy being around people who nevertheless still think that women shouldn't have bodily autonomy, and who disregard the Biblical mandate to welcome foreigners and immigrants in favor of "border security", and who subscribe to the idea that anyone who's poor doesn't deserve government assistance because of the presumption that they are lazy.

I suppose I could attend a progressive church like many Episcopal congregations, who thankfully affirm the LGBTQ+ community, but my relationship with God is very much shaky and in flux, and I'd still feel weird. I'm content to just be as good a person as I can be. Showing love seems like a pretty all-encompassing way to make positive change in the world.