Originally Posted by Swallowtail (Post 593028)

!!!!! UU here to say that the church is super LGBT friendly, pro black lives matter, ecetera. Also you can be another religion and UU. There are Muslim UUs, Christian UUs, Atheist UUs, the services aren't ever really religious but a lot of people go to the UU church then go somewhere else if they feel they need to. It's a lot of storytelling and teaching life lessons more than teaching religion. Like the person telling the story might tell one from the New Testament about Jesus and his diciphels, but emphasize the moral over the religious part. Everyone's really laid back for the most part, and no one will ever get angry at you if you want to leave the church (one year for Sunday school they had us go visit a ton of other churches/mosques/temples so we could see if we would be happier somewhere else) don't go for a year, or anything like that. There are also usually a lot of things that go on outside of Sunday morning, showing local films or dances or Christmas celebrations or celebrating Passover. So yeah if you're kind of unsure about your religion you could always try going to a UU church for a bit, then maybe if you don't feel like that works for you try something else

Originally Posted by AlgebraAddict (Post 593019)

hey buddy i don't know exactly what's going on with you but just email me if you can and if you can't, just know that you're actually super cool?? and you don't deserve to feel like this like at all. you deserve to be loved and protected from this shithole world. fuck anyone who makes you think otherwise.

Originally Posted by Lily09 (Post 593025)

also im kinda scared about how people will percieve me??

both my parents kinda laugh at abrahamic religions because they say that being buddhist is the best religion because theres not actually a god. i just dont really feel connected to buddhism tho and i have negative ties with buddhism due to abuse. i haven't told them im scoping out a church.

i did tell my brother. my brother kinda was like "what? why would you go to church?" and i guess it's understandable. i'm gay and transgender and have identified as either atheist or buddhist for most of my life and pagan for like a year. its kind of out of character for me to want to go to church. but i believe there's something more than this.

i'm also scared of being judged by my friends. theyre all gay and/or trans and most of them aren't religious. i'm scared theyre gonna give me the eye roll. i know some of them have had really bad experiences with religion , but i can still be gay and believe in god right?
(i guess it also doesn't help that i always say 'where's the devil cause i wanna fuck him' or bring up my priest kink but lol thats different)

Originally Posted by Lily09 (Post 593033)

thank you guys!!

i might try out the UU thing but my friend and i have decided to check out the Episcopal church tomorrow

question:my friend wants us to do a dark makeup look because we're going to the mall beforehand and the Lgbt center after, but is that appropriate? i know with buddhist monasteries ive always been told to do very light/natural makeup or none at all?

are there similar dress code/rules for looks at churches ???