Abi,
Many thanks you for your reply. I'm just acknowledging it for now, because I need time to digest it further. Also it provoked much thought within my mind as to just how, when and why I had lost so much of my own faith, to the extent that my degree of abstraction provoked my wife into asking what was troubling me. I mentioned what I was pondering and we ended up discussing both my own and her loss of faith (we have some what different religious backgrounds) well into the night. This would not I think be considered suitable subject matter for discussion in this forum, but much of what you say raises some more relevant issues.
Many thanks you for your reply. I'm just acknowledging it for now, because I need time to digest it further. Also it provoked much thought within my mind as to just how, when and why I had lost so much of my own faith, to the extent that my degree of abstraction provoked my wife into asking what was troubling me. I mentioned what I was pondering and we ended up discussing both my own and her loss of faith (we have some what different religious backgrounds) well into the night. This would not I think be considered suitable subject matter for discussion in this forum, but much of what you say raises some more relevant issues.