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Originally Posted by Lagun
Would you consider the differences inbetween Lutheran and Catholic, "superficial criteria"?
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I personally don't attend church except for concerts, rites of passage etc. There are many reasons for it. Basically, that I don't think that they speak to me at all. The Church of Sweden is mostly about politics. Rotten politics.
I know that this is not an answer to your question. I can't answer it, I'm afraid. If there was a church that I felt very strongly about in my neighbourhood, I would join it, but there is none except the Church of Sweden and another protestant church with much the same orientation. I don't think I'm the church-going kind. I'm too much into esoteric and mystic thought and philosophy, not exoteric religion. I used to go to church, but they don't speak to me, nor did I meet anyone like me there.
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Originally Posted by Lagun
So there could be cases of people with no faith but with a "connection with God" that could be proved through their high moral values?
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Not in an empirical sense. But I believe that spirituality and ethics are linked to each other. But my definition of spirituality is rather wide. People who live by their virtues usually believe in something. What they call it is a different matter.