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[xiphias]

So, it's my impression that about a third of my friends list finds religion, either in general or specific, to be a very useful and good thing for them, about a third is more-or-less indifferent to it, and about a third is hostile to the ideas of it to some extend.

Oh, and that those thirds are NOT entirely disjoint sets -- there are people who like religion AND are indifferent to it AND are hostile to it. Um. I may be one of them, actually.

Anyway, this dance, which I got from vvalkyri, would be an example of one of the reasons I like religion.

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[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

I fall in the indifferent to it category. I know it does good things for a great many people but it's not for me. I also don't mind it, except when people start using it to gain power.

[rosefox]

Gorgeous.

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

That dance is beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

Wow.

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thanks for the link; very beautiful and evocative.

[happyfunpaul.livejournal.com]

So, it's my impression that about a third of my friends list finds religion, either in general or specific, to be a very useful and good thing for them, about a third is more-or-less indifferent to it, and about a third is hos

I go to a UU church, so I'm totally confused which category I fall into. :-)

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

I considered most the UUies on my list to be in several of the categories at once.

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

Beautiful dance - thanks for sending it. It reminded me of the very first ballet I had ever seen. When I was seven years old, my Aunt Selma took me to see "Swan Lake". I thought the second act corps de ballet dance of all the swans was the most beautiful thing I had seen in my (albeit short at that time, I know) life. The graceful, waving arms of the ballerinas looked like water on the lake. It is still a vivid memory.

[rebmommy.livejournal.com]

Another Amazing Asian Acrobatic Ax-travaganza

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

You know, you and your mother are two of the biggest reasons I'm not simply in the "hostile to religion" group.

(Though I'd be lying to say I don't have a membership there. But you and she were and continue to be big influences towards my not discarding the numinous baby with the dogmatic bathwater.)