tmnt religion

[Evenstar227]

Originally Posted by tablesalt

I totally made up the statistic, but I think it's a clear trend.

It's probably a pretty high percentage, anyway. I know it's true in my case.

Originally Posted by tablesalt

but once you pass a certain age, people start looking for more material reasons for things, and that's a hard thing to do with faiths (any of them).

Lol...isn't that one definition of faith? "Belief that is not based on proof"?

Originally Posted by tablesalt

Since Christianity is so prevalent in the west, a lot of practices and traditions have secularized, and practically made meaningless. I think things like appealing to god, or making the cross are like sticking up your middle finger; it's just a kind of short hand, that the user doesn't think too deeply about the meaning of.

That's kind of a harsh analogy, imo. Personally I've never seen the sign of the cross used as flippantly as the middle finger. That's not to say it isn't being done.

I just mentioned these to point out that they obviously picked up on some religious things. I couldn't say whether or not it actually means anything to them, but they seem to have gotten the gist of it. (I think we're in agreement on this point.)