This is a problem that is only going to get worse, over the next few years.
I am an atheist. Never been religious, never been baptised, not interested.
I'm really not comfortable in churches. Partly because I'm worried I'll do the wrong thing, etc etc, but mostly because I don't like to pretend to be religious and do the singing, and the standing up and sitting down. But of course I don't want to stand out. Also, because I don't belong there, I am not religious, I should not be there!
Helpfully, DS1 is going to a church school. (I know! If there was a good atheist school available to us, he'd be there. There isn't.) So I will be going to more services soon.
Should I just mouth the words? Sing them? (I don't know the tune! I don't know the words! And I'd feel such a fraud, anyway!) Aaargh.
The whole thing just annoys the aitch-eee-double-hockey-sticks out of me, tbh.
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Fellow Athiests: How Do You Cope With Church?
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NotQuiteCockney · 29/10/2006 20:02
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