(October 25, 2023 at 6:28 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I don't want laws based on religious teachings but I am not on a mission to deconvert people. Some of my favorite people are religious. A couple of them VERY religious. We have either discussed our differences and come to a place where it doesn't matter or it's just not on the list of things to talk about.
As much as I don't like the door knockers, I certainly don't want to be one of them in reverse.
The biggest cultural change we noticed after emigrating to NZ was how little people seem to care about someone else’s religion.
We were still setting up house when the neighbour couple came over to introduce themselves. Very nice people. At one point they invited us to their church. When we told them we weren’t religious, the woman said, ‘Well, about a movie?’ The invitation to church was a social thing, not a proselytizing thing. We stay friends for years until they moved away.
World of difference from Northern Ireland.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax