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Thread #152125   Message #3567341
Posted By: Dave the Gnome
16-Oct-13 - 05:34 AM
Thread Name: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion p
Subject: RE: BS: Militant atheism has become a religion p
I quite like ritual. Being brought up in a Russian Orthodox followed by Roman Catholic (when they used to use Latin!) environment I grew accustomed to the sung liturgy and have always found it quite beautiful. Of course I decided that the religious bit was quite unnecessary at an early age. I would still quite happily attend a sung mass but see it far more as an entertainment and a social gathering than anything else.

Oddly enough I still wear a cross as a remnant from my childhood (Read about the Cossacks if you want to know why!) and a St Christopher but that is pure superstition. My son once removed St Chris from his car and the very same day the car was written off by an uninsured driver! Nasty buggers these old Saints if you slight them :-)

I do like the definition 'not accepting any god'.

DtG