No One Cares About Your Damn Religion

[Brettongarcia]

53. For a long time I was attracted to Episcopalianism

As I recall, it was the Protestant denomination of many of the American founders. Apparently it was originally the American version of Anglicanism; the Church of England?

On the one hand therefore, the Episcopal church is very, very traditional. Though on the other hand? The Founders were revolutionaries.

In fact, there is something radical, in American conservative attachment to the founders: the founders expressed a revolutionary spirit for democracy, people say. And there were a few radical innovations in religion too: Protestantism; the rebellion against the Church. And Deism in part.

Deism in particular has always interested me; since in some ways it seemed to make room in religion for science. Or seemed to allow both. At least by partition. Though we need more.

These days I think I'm pretty consistent with the American Revolution and its principles: I'm interested in still-revolutionary ideas about religion and science. Involving the breaking away from older religious models that many of us regard as corrupted.

In some ways, I sometimes feel close to Spong. Or in Anglicanism, to Rowan Williams and NT Wright.