(March 26, 2012 at 4:15 am)Godschild Wrote:(March 21, 2012 at 4:28 pm)Stimbo Wrote: It's really strange to me that many people celebrate these kinds of days in terms of religious festivals. By that I mean the whole going to church and giving thanks thing. In my experience, and I know this is far from unique or even unusual, all these 'holy' days are just days when we exchange themed gifts, wish each other well and perhaps eat more than usual. Beyond that, any religious element is an extremely optional extra.
You should go to church for awhile and see who the regular goers are, then go at Christmas and Easter and see how they respond to the occasions.
I went to church once. Then I spotted the lightning conductor nailed to the outside, not to mention all the fire extinguishers inside, and I reckoned that showed a definite lack of the very faith they were trying to sell to me so I left. This may or may not be a true record of events but then you seem to like that sort of thing.
I recommend you check out the bio on my profile, along with my sig line. Besides which, what part of "Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione" do you not understand?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
