From: et472@ncf.ca   
      
   On Tue, 9 Jun 2015, samhillyer825@gmail.com wrote:   
      
   > Homer the Heritic. It was all about Homer not wanting to go to church,   
   > and nowadays no one really goes to church.   
   >   
   People in Springfield do.   
      
   This may be the most religious show on prime time.  Reverend Lovejoy is a   
   regular character, and he isn't out sleuthing.  The characters to go   
   church.  The kids debate a Rabbi. There are references to Hinduism and   
   Buddhism and even Catholicism.  The church has twice been damaged, and   
   then repaired.  The people are about average in their everyday lives when   
   it relates to religion, but that's true everywhere.   
      
   I don't know what the fuss is, the only times I've been to a church   
   service were a handful of times before I was ten, and that was because my   
   sisters thought we should go.  I've been in churches lots of times, for   
   book and rummage sales, and other events, and then when we walked to New   
   York City in 1982 (the time Bernie Sanders as mayor of Burlington Vermont   
   met us on the steps of city hall), most nights there was a potluck dinner   
   at a church, and many a night we stayed at a church.  I even stayed with   
   some Sisters of Mercy nuns in Burlington Vermont.   
      
   But religion was nver in my life, which is kind of interesting   
   consideringb how important it was to my great, great great grandfather   
   (even though he lived in sin with my great, great, great grandmother for   
   about 12 years starting in 1812), and my great, great grandfather was a   
   minister, the John Black Memorial Church in Winnipeg Manitoba is named   
   after him.   
      
      Michael   
      
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