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Thank you for that confirmation; I have changed my signature accordingly. Aaaaaaah Ray Stevens, Everything is beautiful - not!

B Ball game played all over the world is called football here and elsewhere, soccer in places where football is a game involving carrying the ball and throwing it. As you are in the US, you would know football as the game that colleges play with the oval ball and players wearing lots of...

Same here, but she got pressure from her family because I didn't have a university degree, not because I wasn't Catholic or not even Christian. I think they kidded themselves that I must be just because I was christened in the Church of England. As you say, it was no big deal for me. I didn't...

For those who think we are here by accident, fortuitous or otherwise, there is no pre-planned reason for our existence. Now that we are here, though, we may, if we so choose, design or divine or otherwise define a purpose for our lives. Some may make worship of their God their purpose, some may...

Do you mean that God took pleasure in creating us, or that he created us so that we could then do things that pleased him?

It depends on the extent to which your religious beliefs or your religious leaders or texts run your life. But don't confine it to Christian / non-Christian; how about politically right dating politically left, for instance? I think the best mix is to have some differing beliefs, behaviours...

First there was an event (as yet explained only by theory, e.g. "big bang"), that gave rise to natural consequences (expansion, cooling, chemical & physical reactions) and that eventually lead to the emergence of sentient life on this planet and I guess that's what you mean by "existence". Life...

X X-rays not needed. But Y? I was moved to share this with you, but I can't think why: On Monday evening I was struck down by norovirus. Tuesday was a day of recovery. I'm supposed to be having my annual camping fishing week starting tomorrow, but right now I feel like I've had a good...

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Actually, it is I who is the atheist. We did agree on how to raise the children because I agreed, as requested by the Catholic Church, not to interfere with their being raised in the Catholic Faith, and they were. Maybe the church sees someone like me as a potential convert to Christianity and...

It's not a brag, it's a statement of fact in response to the original post and the second and some subsequent views. Believers and non believers can get on together in a close relationship. Do you see a problem with what I posted?

Gavotte

Elegant

Jet (Li)

Bacon

Kent Nagano & The Lyon Opera Orchestra playing Mazurka from Delibes' Coppelia. Every time. Try it. Just try it: The prelude lasts about 1.40, then it's the mazurka. Play it loud and try to keep still and not smile.

Next month will be our 29th wedding anniversary: atheist married to catholic. There has never been a conflict over beliefs.

stripe

Gideon

mate!