[ilovesarah2012]

Then why stay in the church?
Maybe you believe Obama ignored Wright.

[Mad Dawg]

I don't think the Obama/Wright phenom is similar. People join “free” churches, I think because they like the pastor. But, at least when I was younger people went to their (Episcopal) parish church because they had always gone to that church. One of my sisters is like that. I don't think even she knows what she believes. I'll be visiting her in June and I'll ask her.

I KINDA think maybe this sort of reflexive church attendance, personal (not to say idiosyncratic) piety, plus parish “good works” attitude may have given space for the kind of lefty Unitarianish thinking so many Episcopal clergy have.

It's interesting to me because I was an Episcopal priest before I became a Catholic. I found that a great many parishioners were more traditionally devout and even orthodox than many of the clergy. One lady, though, was shocked and disappointed that I actually believed that Jesus, you know, died to save us from sin and death!