Season 1, Episode 12

Are Relationships the Religions of the 90s?

They might even be the religion of the millenium! With the signs of the apocalypse nearer and nearer, why aren't more people turning to organized religion? It seems that the adults of my generation and the generation before me have turned away from the house of worship and focused more on socialization. Was this something that we picked up along the way, or were all of us subjected to long, boring surmons on an empty stomach as children?

My grandmother used to take us to church every Sunday morning. My mother would insist that we go with her. We would arrive earlier than everyone else and stay later than everyone else. It was nightmarish. I remember dozens of hours spend laying on the church bench with a headache and an empty stomach hoping that it would end soon so that I could have a snack. Communion days were the best! After church my sister and I would run down the stairs to the basement kitchen and eat leftover bread and drink leftover grape juice. It was the best when there were no other children at church that day, because we would get all of it. Otherwise, it was a long treck back home with grandma in a car with no snacks and an uncle who had grandma stop for KFC on the way home, but never shared. It was torture smelling that KFC all the way home without being able to enjoy the taste of it. To this day, I think of those car rides everytime I pass a KFC.

What are your religion stories?