Round Table ...Rainy Days and Sundays

[glennagirl]

Not like the iconic song, Rainy Days and Mondays, a Sunday version can be comforting and lazy.  I still need to get myself to church in the rain this morning, but the rest of the day will be self-indulgent and lazy.  The house needs cleaning, but it is doubtful I'll take my only day off to do that job

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[mrua7]

I have Napoleon attending church, usually St. Patrick's Cathedral NYC in a number of stories. I wrote an Easter egg for Carabele where he took Illya to church and to see the Easter parade.

I have quite a few number of religious references for Solo, as well as some from Illya's childhood before the war and the USSR turned him into an atheist. He denies the existence of God, but deep down inside he still believes, but he's mad a God for taking his family from him as a child. He still has faith, but hides it as it's too deeply personal.

In my AU series Illya's wife Elliott is an Irish Catholic, and though he doesn't attend church with her, he eventually professes his belief in God. In one particular story I have him going into a church around Christmas and he confesses his sins to a priest. He feels compelled to do so because he'd just become a father. (The priest eventually becomes the chaplain for UNCLE in NYC.)

These are just a few examples I have of church and religion intertwined with my MFU stories and the variations on the themes of faith, church, and God are many. Actually way more than I realized until you brought up this topic.

[glennagirl]

I think we can assume that there is some religious training in both of their lives, even Illya. Grandparents would not be as deeply affected by the affectations of the atheist state, and so might have had some influence.
I like Illya as more introspective than to merely disregard God.