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A friend on mine posted that on his Facebook page. I thought I'd share. :)
I can never quite figure out this friend of mine -- which is exactly how I think he likes it. He performs Wiccan ceremonies while having both embraced and rejected "Wiccan" as a label, he has called himself a Sufi (SUFI was his personalized license plate for a while), he wouldn't call himself an atheist or an agnostic (or hasn't yet -- who knows if I were to ask again?) but often says things as thoroughly skeptical sounding as many atheists and agnostics might say.
I don't think he's ever made any statement about belief, or lack of belief, where I didn't get the impression that he might as well be winking when he said it.
At times I think his approach to religion is like a role playing game (he does run D&D games), that he just likes acting out the parts and the rituals of belief. (Even as an atheist myself, I've enjoyed participating in Beltane rituals a few times, and a couple of Wiccan weddings.)
This friend makes me wonder how many other self-proclaimed believers are, at least in part, going through the motions of their religion and/or spirituality as a kind role play. I suspect that my friend is hard to pin down on the sincerity and exact nature of his beliefs not because he's being deliberately evasive, but because he enjoys the ambiguity.
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