I've never had a religious friend, and that's not something I sought out to do on purpose. I guess I just have a personality that gravitates towards non-believers.
I do have a religious wife, however, who is practically a non-practicing Catholic. I say "practically" because she goes to church on Christmas and Easter, mainly just to please her grandmother, and she did want to have our son baptized, which I agreed to allow. When you throw a kid in the mix, it changes the dynamic, because things I would normally object to I won't in order to save my capital for religious complaints for when the situation is more important, like what to teach our son. The baptism was painful to experience, but it was worth it if it allows me to more boisterously object to things like sending him to Sunday school.
I do have a religious wife, however, who is practically a non-practicing Catholic. I say "practically" because she goes to church on Christmas and Easter, mainly just to please her grandmother, and she did want to have our son baptized, which I agreed to allow. When you throw a kid in the mix, it changes the dynamic, because things I would normally object to I won't in order to save my capital for religious complaints for when the situation is more important, like what to teach our son. The baptism was painful to experience, but it was worth it if it allows me to more boisterously object to things like sending him to Sunday school.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
