"Alain de Botton makes the point that ALL of us struggle with life. And religion dispels the huge myth that ‘everyone else is coping, I’m the only one who’s not managing to hold my life together’. This is one of the most wonderful consolations and encouragements that I have gained from being a Christian - realising that we ALL have problems, struggle, make mistakes and suffer. This is so different from the modern religion of consumerism, which pretends that life is easy, and that if we are struggling there is something wrong with us! Thanks so much Alain!"By a Spiritual Atheist, attending the Unitarian Church in Bristol
This rather neatly describes some of what it is that people get from being part of any spiritual or religious community. Consolation and encouragement. These are wonderful things, and those of us who find them in our Unitarian communities get