For the record, I purposely avoid going to Mass very week so as to avoid being manipulated by patriarchy and adopt the idea that I somehow earn my blessings, grace, time out of purgatory or whatever nonsense the powerful use to manipulate the ignorant and the credulous. 
   When I DO go I go for Jesus, a re-enactment of the Last Supper (this is not a re-enactment of Calvary, common sense will tell you that) and the Word of God. Incidentally, if I meet anyone who shows hospitality during the "kiss of peace" I am grateful. More often than not there is someone who is going through the motions and finds it easier to pretend he or she doesn't see me or recognize I am there. 
   If you go to an Anglican church people step out into the aisles to reach out to others. I sure they are more civil in other Protestant churches. What the victims of clerical brainwashing don't see is their complicit role in perpetuating a system of abuse and manipulation by maintaining a distant ritualistic piety.