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To: freelyhovering who wrote (247546)	3/16/2014 7:36:33 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 542019

That is a good thing

To: freelyhovering who wrote (247546)	3/16/2014 9:25:02 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 542019

I can tell that religion gives people community. Having a secular Christian upbringing, my parents seemed to go through the motions of not-too-believing church-goers. Our family went through periods where I got dragged to church, but the dogma was never used in any way I can remember in my home. No Heaven or Hell mentions or the use of the word "sin". We used secular words for being bad and what our punishment would be for that. We didn't do "Grace" except when the minister was over... I always wondered what the big deal was and never knew there were actually dedicated Christians until much later in my life. That was sort of surreal when I found that kind of belief was more common than I ever knew personally. When I was ten I think I figured out that churches were like schools (simply institutions) and the minister had the task to tell stories to make us self-aware and to be nice to one another.