Do any of you keep mementos of your old religion? For whatever reason? [View all]
[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]I often feel like a hypocrite posting in here and in religion.
The reason being, as I sit here posting on DU about my skepticism and lack of faith, I am adjusting a crucifix that my late grandmother gave me when I was six years old. I haven't believed in over a decade, but I can't bring myself to take it off.
When she gave it to me, my parents were convinced I would lose it in a week. That I would take it off and forget about it. That she had wasted her money.
They were wrong. I never lost it, and only took it off to get longer chains. Heh, I even swam with it on.
I loved her greatly, and was the closest person to her in the family. I would spend my weekends over at her house, and was one of her caretakers as she got older and more infirmed from her Emphysema. In a way it prepared me to help take care of my mother as her MS got worse.
Sometimes, when a person dies people regret that they did not tell that person how much they loved them. That was not the case between her and me...and I often think of her when I am adjusting it.
Do any of you have something like this? A religious memento that you keep around your house or on your person for whatever reason? Something that might cause a person to give you a double look when they learn you are an atheist/agnostic?[/font]
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