Not sure I can answer that as specifically as the question suggests. I have long been part of the church, I find it a comfort during the tough times and an inspiration to be less self centred during the good times than I might tend to be otherwise. There is a spiritual overlay to this and this...
Seems to be a subject matter that inspires some staggering and sweeping generalisations - mainly that anybody who has any faith in a God is stupid or poor or repressed or ignorant or evil or being used by somebody else or is causing grief and pain to others and probably all of these things. I am...