(March 3, 2015 at 10:57 am)rasetsu Wrote: I don't know what to vote. We attended church every Sunday, but religion wasn't really a part of the dynamic of my family, never said grace, etc., so to me, that's semi-religious. I think you need more categories.
I had a very similar situation. I was taken to church every Sunday, but saying religion wasn't really a part of the dynamic of my family would be an understatement. Religion or god was never mentioned outside of church, and my parents had such a heavy focus on science that I was specifically told that if science and the bible contradicted, science was correct. My parents never discussed their beliefs specifically, and I was never even certain my parents were actually Christian until I asked them.
Still, I think I can count the number of times we missed church in the fifteen years my parents made me attend on one hand.
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
