Stratovania

As far as raising children in a religious environment...I am not sure I would call a Unitarian church a religious environment. There are a fair number of people at our church who consider themselves secular humanists or non-theists. I think the value is more in that it is an environment of religious tolerance and understanding. Being around a large group of people who all think differently (relatively speaking...we live in a eastern mass and our minister is gay...there are not a lot of conservatives at our church) and still can be together in community is more valuable to me than having an academic understanding of religion. Also I was raised in a church and while I think a lot of the teaching (brainwashing)n was crap I had a lot of friends and social acitvities that revolved around church, much more so than at school so I think I want that for my kids also.