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I grew up with non-observant Catholic parents, (I think my father felt some guilt for not going regularly going to church, when we'd go to the Christmas mass, he'd give out tons of money.) who were telling me how horrible the Church was, for example telling women to keep having children, even when the doctor was warning that the next pregnancy would be fatal, etc etc. For some theologians, French Canadians (the word Québécois didn't exist back then, that appeared in the 60s) were the chosen people, the Tribe of Israel (!) and they were to be lead to salvation or something. The nationalist movement in Québec has religious roots, and it's not a coincidence that the province's flag bears a cross front an center, which no one seems to protest very much even in the very atheistic contemporary context.

So anyway, I grew up being told that the Church was evil, and that's what I "rejected", the institution as it was in Québec, more of a kneejerk than anything else. I've gone to Church twice in the last 4 years (once to bury my father) and it creeped the hell out of me both times.

As for protestants, the United Church interests me in particular because the NDP is so drenched in it. :] I don't know its specifics though. And, Bill Blaikie, blech.

And then there's UU, but that looks more like a spirituality club. Not that it isn't attractive either.

I think I'll re-read the new testament some time soon, and the Avestas (Zoroastrianism) too if I can find a copy.