A few years ago I was on a Christian forum giving the Christians "Hell." I read the comments of a young man who was trying to be a good Christian.....but he had what he considered a serious problem....he couldn't stop masturbating. His comments indicated that he was considering suicide because he thought he was not good enough. My comments to him to try and persuade him to not kill himself were rejected...he was going to do it. I contacted the webmaster who said he would follow up....the young man disappeared from the forum and I never knew what happened. Christianity puts terrible burdens on people.

Good for you. But you must not be attending a Catholic Church. My girlfriend and her family are Catholics, And I have to go every now and then. It is soooo strange, boring and almost cultish.

My story is similar yet worse. The church was against me going to university. I went anyway. Everything in the universe can be explained through science math rationality etc. Got married Found out my wife was molested at a young age in church. Tragic loss God couldn't do anything to save anyone. And here I am.

You got the wheat and the chaff defined. Your daughter is your concern and how to explain that you woke up without betraying your trust about your realized awakening. Long walks into nature is a slow and well cure all for your ability to discuss and talk about seeing the forest from the tree. Nature will give you all the necessary needed explanations. I like what the turtle always told me "Slow and easy wins the Race"

I went to church with my then husband when he was stationed in Texas. I went with my children for a year while their dad was stationed in Korea. 9-11 happened about two months after we were in Florida. Went to connect with people, found more people to bond with in scouts. By this point I had read the bible three times, and I was done. When someone suggested UU, at that time, I scoffed. It would be another decade, and three more people suggesting the UU before I went. Still a member today. It is the place where all the weirdos meet while everyone else attends Church of Christ or pick your flavor of Baptist. Love my UU's. They keep me sane.

I play the music for churches regularly and I do enjoy the singing and even the sermons sometimes. The people are always very nice and welcoming.

There are some good things about churches: (1) fellowship; (2) music and group singing; (3) opportunities to participate in charitable causes; (4) support for those who want to improve themselves.

However, such things are available in non-religious settings, too. I choose the non-religious settings, where people are not trying to brainwash me into believing that myths are reality.

I could not do that, I had spent so long suffering over the idea that there was something wrong with me for not hating so many "sins and sinners" and not understanding why a loving god would want to burn so many people for making tiny mistakes or thinking for themselves, that when I realised the church itself was the hateful and hateworthy organisation I quite literally could no longer even cross the threshold with out feeling physically sick.

It can be enjoyable as long as you tune out the crazy. But the fellowship and community that you found there with your child is a good thing.