I’m not sure it really matters how liberal or conservative the church is. Fewer and fewer people in developed countries believe. Churches will presumably reflec

I’m not sure it really matters how liberal or conservative the church is. Fewer and fewer people in developed countries believe. Churches will presumably reflect the values of the societies they serve but shrink as fewer feel drawn to them. I grew up in the similarly liberal English Catholic tradition, going to state funded Catholic schools. I never really believed in God but I retain an affection for the values of tolerance and charity they espoused, to ‘love thy neighbour as thyself’. Had they been more conservative I suspect the school would not have been as popular. I never saw the attraction of Richard Dawkins brand of atheism as the type of fundamentalist Christianity it attacked was so different to my experience of liberal Catholicism. But I did consider debaptism when the English Cardinal started going on homophobic rants. It seemed antithetical to the values of our congregation. Then it came out he was a closeted gay man and the public homophobia was a way of covering that up.