RE: Why are you (still) a Christian?
September 9, 2023 at 2:58 pm
(This post was last modified: September 9, 2023 at 3:00 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Not so much communal participation itself as the opportunity -for- communal participation. That is, after all, one of the basic factors between some collection of things a person believes...and a religion. OTOH, you could be the only christian on an alien planet, you would still be religious, and you could be surrounded by other people who also believe in spirits and -not- have a community to interact with, religiously, because no one else believes what you do about those spirits or that divine or what they mean.
Fucking messy, if you ask me.
Fucking messy, if you ask me.
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