Checking Out Churches

GOING TO CHURCH has value,and I am glad I started a few months ago. I wish, and would like to have a few more folks in our congregation. One thing seems apparant: I should probably stick with the most "liberal" denomination I can, for compatibility. It may be that, with regard to the conservative, fundamentalist denominations, my disagreements with them and abhorrance of them stem more from politics than religion. It utterly appals me that more than eighty percent of American evangelical Christians evidently still support Donald Trump. It seems to me that they should support Bernie Sanders, AOC, or both. Jesus and Trump? Gimme a break, as they say. I'm not willing to argue with these people, but I am willing to hammer them with facts. Social Security is socialism, facts like that. Donald Trump is a convicted felon. Facts like that. There is simply no way to argue against facts like this, so, I refuse to do it. The twenty twenty election was not stolen from Trump, his claim that it was has always been and remains a big lie; no argument. I am unwilling to accept or respect anybody's beliefs which blatantly contradict proven reality, and embrace demonstrable falsehood. This includes the two most important facts which conservative fundamentalist Christians tend in large numbers to deny; climate change caused by human activity, and human evolution by natural selection. Anyone who denies either of these bedrock scientifically factual phenomena is simply self delusinal, by willlfully, willingly embracing falsehood. Whether and precisely how much social interaction I should have with such people is an entirely another question. As I have mentioned previously; many of them tend to be "wonderful" people; kind, nice, intelligent, and so forth. Religion becomes a problem when accepting its doctrines requires one to deny observable, provable reality, and to embrace nonsense and lies as fact, no matter how nice and kind you are. I find it very interesting that in America the people who support Donald Trump and the people who deny climate change and evolution tend to be the same people, and that they tend to have much less formal education than people who despise Trump, and accept the reality of climate change and evolution. College educated people tend to be against Trump, uneducated people tend to support him. Trump loves uneducated people, and said so, for a reason. Liberals, and college educated people tend to understand and acknowledge climate change and human evolution; less educated people more often do not. And no, all opinions are not equal, and whereas we are all entitled to our own opinions, we are not entitled to our own facts. Thus, there is a certain body of facts upon which everyone should agree, simply because they are facts. Another of these often inconvenient but unassailable facts is the fact that there are thousands of different religions in the world, that all religions are invented by people, and that books, all books, are written by human beings, not gods. Religious people who believe and claim that only their own specific religion that they embrace is valid and true are, it seems evident to me, arrogant, dishonest, self deluded. The Catholic Church, once upon a time, condemned Galileo to house arrest for looking through a telescope. Today, the church pays for and maintains a large investment in science, including astronomy, and owns and operates at least one very large, very useful telescope, with which our knowledge of the universe expands. This proves that any religion can change, grow, evolve. Arguably, those that do stand a much better chance of long term survival those those which do not.