(November 24, 2013 at 6:20 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: After living up here for a few months, I came to the realization that no one has asked me in small talk "so what church do you go to?" as if I go to one. Or "what denomination are you?" as if I belong to one. When I lived in the south, it seemed that in most conversations I had one of those questions would get raised eventually.
Generally speaking (and I'm aware I could be walking into a poo storm here), it's the other way around in the UK. Southerners are a lot more relaxed about religion where as Northerners are a bit more wound up. I'm speaking as a Southerner who is now living up North, much like yourself but on a different continent.
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"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
