I'm not religious. There is no combination of words in the English language that you can use to convince me otherwise.
Sometimes, though, I wish there was. To admit anything else would be a lie.
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Reading this I wondered if you had ever read Nikos Katzanzakis' "autobiography" 'Report to Greco'? Been years since I read it; but IIRC, his journey took him through atheism/socialism/Buddhism/ and at the end, back to Orthodox Christian. In the '70s I was with a group of Buddhists visiting his grave in Heraklion and read his famous epitaph: “Δεν ελπίζω τίποτα. Δε φοβούμαι τίποτα. Είμαι λεύτερος". (I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.)