In Reply to: Re: my life stance as a humanist posted by pragmatic reaction on November 03, 2004 at 21:40:26:
Reminds me of Somerset Maugham's Razor's Edge. The main character expresses the idea that one can abandon a religion, meaning a certain faith, without leaving its moral structures.
That is why leaving the family means for some to leave a building or not to tithe anymore when in reality we know it entails much more than that.
If our Family experience was llike a parenthesis in our life, we can see that after leaving we get in a process to regain our true nature and move on with that. Perhaps some of us were religious to begin with (regardless of the details of whatever we were doing at that time) and others weren't. I know I wasn't religious at all but I can see how I had interests in the "5th dimension".