Small moments of faith

[saintless]

I've drifted away from the church over the past ten or so years. I

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[saintless]

I have a really shaky history with organized religion and I really doubt that this will lead anywhere. None the less, thank you for the words of encouragement. I've always walked a very interesting line between very devoutly religious people and solid atheists. There's a good chance that my experience was due to missing my family back east, at least the tearful part (I have a severely religious extended family with two great-uncles who took vows of priesthood and a cousin in seminary now). Perhaps it was something greater though. That's the fun thing about faith, any intelligent person can rationalize anything and I could easily make a list of explanations right now; that's the easy thing to do

[fischlehrer]

Thanks for your post. So many of my friends are militant atheists that sharing spirituality tends to get laughed at or ridiculed

[saintless]

Thanks for sharing. I think I already beat this horse to death but I'll add a bit anyways. I have an even mix of atheist and faithful friends. I can't say I have any militant atheist friends because I probably would stay friends with someone like that too long (I do have a few friends who are very solid in their lack of belief but they would never frown upon their friends who don't share the same opinion). I wouldn't be surprised to find out that there really is a "God gene" and that belief is often a genetic predisposition (or maybe it's better to say that lack of belief if a genetic predisposition since atheists are in the minority). Regardless, I believe religious tolerance to be more important than any dogma