Summary of your religious beliefs

[LabourJersey]

Religion: Christianity
Denomination: Episcopalian (High Church/Anglo-Catholic sect)

Why do you follow this religion? I was baptized Episcopal. My parents were of different denomination (Dad was Presbyterian, Mom was Catholic) and so they "met in the middle" denominationally speaking.

Do you believe in God? Yes: I believe in a creator of the universe, the maker of all things visible and invisible. I'd say that God is all-knowing, but humans are endowed with free will, and the ability to accept or not accept what comes from God. In that sense I would not say God is all-powerful. God does not talk to me, but I find that religious rituals I take part in do give me a mental clarity and awareness of my self and place in the world.

Afterlife: I do believe in a human soul, and I believe that human consciousness contains something unique human and perhaps eternal--at the very least something that outlives our bodies. I don't think heaven or the afterlife is a physical place--I'm reminded of the book FLATLAND where the two-dimensional narrator believes "Up" is a place like a nation-state.

Prayer: Since the pandemic and since some family issues that I won't go into, I do pray much more often than I ever used to. Not quite daily but close to it.

Worship: Since Easter of this year I've actually gone to Sunday services most weeks. Mainly to a high church Episcopalian parish near me, though I have gone to two Catholic masses (partially out of curiosity, partially out of learning more about my family's original religion, and partially because of the beauty of that particular Church). 

Ghosts, spirits, angels, and demons: I'm pretty much skeptical of these things, but the universe is a weird place, I suppose.

One True Path: I believe that my religion is true, but I don't think I can be an objective judge of something like this. I do think that regardless of what is the one true path, beliefs and religions that are not my own are still valuable and productive components of other people's live, lineages and cultures.

Spiritual objects: I think any object can have religious meaning or significance, but I wouldn't say they have spiritual properties outside of that.

Religious law: I follow the standard morality code of modern-day Western society, which is obviously based in some part on the Ten Commandments. I'm definitely not a literalist on biblical law--otherwise I would opposed to wearing mixed fabrics, to say nothing of issues like homosexuality and abortion.

Spreading the word: I'm skeptical of converting already religious people in non-Christian faiths to Christianity--while I do certainly adhere to Christian beliefs. I do think there's a role for evangelism, especially for a church like the Episcopalian Church, among the non-religious and more specifically people who did not grow up with a church and long for more meaning.

[LabourJersey]

Why do you follow this religion? I was baptized Episcopal. My parents were of different denomination (Dad was Presbyterian, Mom was Catholic) and so they "met in the middle" denominationally speaking.

I just came across this post as it was showed to me by Battista; it is crazy in that my parents were literally in the same situation, even though my dad was essentially an atheist, despite being baptized Presbyterian, until his NDE during heart surgery. I'll never forget the day he walked into my room and started crying (something he did on rare occasions) and told me "I believe in God now." I cried with him.

One Protestant and one Catholic make one Anglican. It's a proven fact!

Interesting coincidence! Though neither of my parents had a religious experience nearly as dramatic as what your Dad had.

My parents were married in a Presbyterian church; My Dad didn't want to make the promise that afleitch mentions his parents did, which is the requirement in the US too if a Catholic and non-Catholic want to get married in a Catholic church. But I would say that I'm the way things worked out and feel satisfied in me being Epsicopalian/Anglican.