> I think this is why many people either give up religion or change to a different denomination. I can't stand the church-going part, for numerous reasons, but it's taken me quite a long time to realise that the *church* and the *religion* are two completely separate issues. I doubt I could ever become a church-going person but I do have religious beliefs. I guess what I'm saying is, if you decide to change or discard your religious beliefs, base it on considering the beliefs themselves and not on the outward show.

I don't know if anyone else has said this before somewhere else, but I'd always thought that "religion" meant going to church, doing good, that kind of thing. The belief was "faith" (or just "belief"), and "church" was a group of people meeting about Christianity, whether that group was large, small, formal, informal, whatever.

Or is this just the way I've been taught?

Zo"I'm Christian, but not very religious"e.