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Post by goz on Sept 5, 2019 0:19:29 GMT

Sept 4, 2019 16:11:57 GMT general313 said:

Sept 3, 2019 22:00:06 GMT @homergreg said:

I pray to God. I do not pray to my religion nor do I find God through religious ceremony. I will place God first, my family next. I'm Christian. I find God in prayer, and I try to do his will through his guidance in prayer and also through Church. I understand you feel differently, but I would not be able to find God like I have your way.

I appreciate your view and if you find God through the path of the Catholic church, that is wonderful.

I think it's easy these days to dismiss the value of religious ceremony in the modern practice of worshiping God, given how ubiquitous Christianity is now, but in the past that ceremony was vital. I believe the Vikings would still be heathens (i.e. Odin worshipers) today if the early Christians didn't have some impressive ceremony to help convert them.

That is so interesting that you should say that. Despite apparent 'modernity' in current ay society, there is stull room for 'ceremony' It seems to give humans a sense of something's worth and value. WE still go to weddings and funerals, graduations etc, to mark special occasions.

Also despite me being one of the harshest critics of the Catholic Church in the way that they have taken their 'specialness' to a new level in not pursuing criminal priests and hiding their crimes ( not to mention their ridiculous rejection of modern medical science and technology), I still have a respect for some of the old fashions rituals and ceremonies.

When I walked the Camino de Compostella in Spain, I loved reaching each village with its church and religious effigies and icons, and I absolutely adore in the Cathedral at the end the swinging of the great incense burner etc.
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