Reply #37: I don't recall that [View All]

[salin]

and had heard some todo over his switching churches to the Congregational Church. Then read the overtones (not all positive) about his speeches as having a religious fervor. These days it gets hard to tell what is real vs not in reporting. Lots of spinning going back and forth (and no, I do not agree that the entire media is involved in a conspiracy to set him up as the preferred fall guy to Bush. I think the media is working to trivialize each of the dem candidates.)

I paid particular attention to the Congregational Church thing as I was raised in an American Baptist church that merged with a United Church of Christ (congregational), and in adulthood joined the UCC (congregational). Was in Vermont (family - in a NOT liberal part of the state) this summer and attended a small Congregational Church (throughout the countryside in that region there will be many of these small churches - often with only 30-50 attendants due to the ruralness of the area, and the philosophy that it is better to be in a small community congregation than consolidated and driving long distances to be in a bigger congregation). It was very similar - though with a slightly more conservative bent - to my own Church.