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[newnumber6]

Boxing Day. However, I decided to avoid the boxing. Not much I would have wanted to buy (the things I might have considered buying because of the deal are generally too rare to make it worth going out and looking, or too expensive such that I don't have the money on hand and that I need to know if I'm getting certain other money I'm owed before I

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[jetfx]

I don't know why one would have to create a "god" (she uses the term rather loosely) out of change. There's no need to "believe" (know would be a better word) something that is factually true, and unnecessary to add any sort of ritual to decorate plain fact. Besides, creating any sort of formal ritual around some set of values is dangerous, because in a few generations you're back with all the trappings of traditional religion - the dogmatism and intolerance.

I think Carl Sagan very eloquently summed up a secular system of ethics in his quote about the "Pale Blue Dot" photograph, without adding any sort of the trappings of religious practice.