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dalaigh lllama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-20-06 09:13 AM
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133. I would also add
from purely anecdotal experience, that those who have questioned their birth "faith" and either changed their religion or left religion entirely, tend to be more committed to morality. I'm even including the fundies -- the ones at the bottom of the fundie totem pole here, not their feckless leaders. I am diametrically opposed to the "morality" system of the fundies, but I think they are committed to living a "Christian" life in their strange little way. I'm more in tune with atheists with a humanist approach to morality, because they seem to approach their world view with more logic and less reliance on others' pronouncements. In my own family of five siblings raised Catholic, we have one non-church-goer, one Lutheran, two Unitarian Universalists, and one fundie. Go figure. During a period of spiritual crisis in my own life, I found the following saying to be most apropos:

Religion is for folks who are afraid of going to hell. Spirituality is for folks who have already been there.
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