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hehe i dont want to go to church - i just wondered what it was - cos if you are born and raised in america you would never be CofE................

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Why not? You can be any religion you want without having to go to church. You could be born to C of E British parents here and raised as that.

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In England you put CofE but how many of us go to church?

I told my ex FIL I was an atheist (he was Syrian Orthodox) and he asked his son if that was more like them or the Catholics.
Do your best to avoid conversations about religion, people who bring it up generally expect you to agree with them and can't handle it if you don't.

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I was brought up an atheist in England but like to visit churches.. I was in Minneapolis a few years ago for a conference, and visited the Episcopal Cathedral for a performance of Elgar's Dream of Gerontius. It was superb, and probably the most "English" experience I've ever had in America.

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Some people put C of E because they assume we are all just that if we are nothing else. Having had my parents insist I go to a C of E school instead of a grammar school, I am now proud to state 'no religion' when asked.

In Sweden until very recently everyone had to pay a tax to the Church of Sweden whether they believed or not!

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I actually support the role of the established church in England, even though I am myself an atheist. I think there is a sense that we [English people] are all members of the CofE, unless we actively profess another religion. If I lived in England, I would definitely give money to my parish church and cathedral for the support of the fabric and all their good works.

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One of my personal pet-peeves. It goes hand-in-hand with getting married in church for the pictures.

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I borrowed Fatbrit's slogans:
WWJB and WWJT and put them up at work on my cubicle wall.

Mistake. :blink:

A religious colleague started to describe the battle of Armageddon.

So it now reads "Engineers do it with precision".

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I'd never do that - we got married in the registry office, and have no pictures (nobody sober enough to hold a camera.)

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I got married in the registry office too (much to my mother in laws disgust!!!) got some nice pics tho - was one of henry 8ths manor houses :D

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Red Cross and Swiss flag. :lol:

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a limey

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You can go to www.secularism.org.uk and get a form to "de-baptise" yourself if you like.

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1st marriage - Catholic Church, pics, nice but low cost, less than 150 people
2nd marriage - Protestant preacher's office with only guests being my son and his girlfriend (took pictures). We tried to do it at the courthouse but there was a 2-month waiting list.

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My own mother initially refused to attend as it wasn't in a church :thumbsup:
Unfortunately she decided to come in the end and ruin all of the photos :thumbdown:

I got married here...

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