[PetroniusMaximus]

"The Episcopal Church helped lead me to Judaism."

Is it safe to say, considering their present state, that they did not present true Christianity to you?

[onedoug]

Well, I'm being a little flippant. It was actually a long road, by which at least the "liberal" Episcopal wing at All Saints Pasadena (CA) did however let me know that I was becoming persona non grata there during Clinton's impeachment.

Though I've always recognized Jesus as a great rabbi, I had never come to see him as any more "divine" then anyone else.

9/11 though finally moved me from what I then thought was life-long agnosticism to belief.

After a lifetime of "church-hopping", I finally got up enough gumption to go to a Conservative, and then to an Orthodox synagogue, and have looked back fondly and nostalgically, but never regretfully since.

Though don't get me wrong. I think that the United States could never have been founded without Christianity. It's just not for me.