I'm not a religious person, well, not in any classical sense anyway. But I do find important or significant religious buildings quite interesting, awe inspiring maybe, they do seem to contain, almost like a battery or capacitor or something, an energy. Unseen but felt.
I'd welcome the opportunity to visit a centre of worship from any of the major religious groups. In that way l feel I might gain some greater understanding of the ones I'm not especially familiar with, and you never know, perhaps a little succour as a bonus.
I don't think anyway, that I'm liable to suddenly have any form of epiphany from any quarter, but the ancient belief systems, however flawed and however outdated, helped form the very basis of our modern civilisations and in their purest forms the codes of conduct which allow society to function. The trouble with all of them is the interpretations which have been drawn from them by those using them as a conduit to power and self aggrandisement.
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