A raving agnostic in spain.
Here in Spain there are many Fiestas, particularly at Easter, where effigies are carried around the villages and towns by the locals.
At these Fiestas people, mainly women, cry and reach out to touch the religious statue. They lift up their babies, seemingly oblivious of the dangers. When they achieve their objective, they walk away with what can only be described as a “divine smile” on their faces. I simply do not understand what people, particularly women, hope to achieve by touching an inanimate object. Worse still, to put ones child at risk of falling from a significant height in a crowd of what can only be described as “rampant”, where injury or even death could occur if trampled.
Perhaps Spain is the wrong place for someone who does not believe there is a God.
I acknowledge their right to choose their beliefs, I just do not understand. For me, religion does not have a place in modern society. It seems to me that society is no further on than the religious fanatics typical of the middle ages.
I am sure that man cannot possibly know that there is a God or some Supreme Deity watching over the lives of the humans on this planet, a planet he made with inhabitants made in his own image. And woman being made out of the spare rib of Adam is just another “rant” waiting to happen. That really puts us in our place ladies.
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