(August 29, 2012 at 10:04 am)pocaracas Wrote:(August 29, 2012 at 10:02 am)greneknight Wrote: I think it's because I've been an altar boy all my conscious life. I've been an altar boy since I was 5. It seems like disloyalty to leave the church just because I know about the flaws of an ancient religion.
The ancient Egyptian religion was about 4 thousand years old when everyone just sort of... left.
Now they're mostly muslims.... go figure!
It's not how old the religion is. I do believe. I have examined myself why I believe when there is no evidence. I think it's because I've heard, recited and participated in the Liturgy too many times. I think some might call it brainwashing. I have been singing the Magnificat and the Nunc Dimittis EVERY evening for as long as I can remember and only stopped doing it when I left England recently. I suppose logically speaking, it is a form of brainwashing. But however one terms it, I do enjoy Evensong.
Once, some boys got tired of doing this daily ritual and the Dean told us how the prayers have been sung EVERYDAY for the past 900 years even right through the Interregnum when anyone caught singing it would have been killed by Oliver Cromwell?
Anyway, my avatar pic is the pic of the cathedral which I took at my last Evensong before I left England. That's the cathedral where the prayers have been sung everyday for 900 years without ceasing.
