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[bootme]

This morning saw my mother, Martha and Aunt Gemma off to church for Easter services. Having far better things to do than go and kiss the arse of someone who died almost two-thousand years ago, if he existed at all, I stayed home and had a rather restful morning sleeping in, reading, revising, and, eventually, arguing with graduate students

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[fletchfinchley]

It was not that I didn't have better things to do, it was that I wanted to go.

[bootme]

Which means you couldn't think of anything better to do.

Or, more to the point, I can't actually think of much that is more bizarre than actually wanting to go to church. I was incredibly thankful when my mother stopped trying to get me to go.

[fletchfinchley]

You find comfort in atheism, I find comfort in faith. You really don't need to insult my beliefs even though they don't align with yours.

Do you?

[bootme]

No. No I don't, I suppose. I didn't know I was.

It's just something I've never understood, probably never will, and most of my mother's family seems to believe I'm highly immature over.

[luna_see]

one on the roof, the other trapped in the study.
it has been a rather long week, hasn't it?
i hope you two have at least managed to end up in the same room for a few moments at some point.

[bootme]

Actually, I'm on a bench a bit away from the house right now. Justin is apparently attempting to get my father's attention, however.

And yes, it rather has been a bit of a long week.

[luna_see]

it has Been at my house as well.
i came home to a horrIble shock this easter.
my father is... seeing some womaN. i don't know who she is, a reporter or someThing.

she is ugly and she laughs like a horse.

[bootme]

I'm very sorry, Luna. It must be hard to come home and find that your household has changed while your back was turned.

[swanchang]

Terribly glad now that my parents are a pair of godless heathens and have raised my sister and I the same way.

[bootme]

I wish mine were.

Boots are atheistic by nature. Religion fights against the urge to never, ever take a side if it's humanly possible. My Aunt and cousin are not Boots, and very religious, however, and my mother has begun to find God in her old age.

[swanchang]

Isn't your mother a scientist of sorts?

[bootme]

Evolutionary Biologist.

You'd be surprised how many scientists are very religious. Something to do with finding the work of God in the universe or some such. I don't understand, but I don't understand religion in general.