>>7I'd agree with you in most cases, but i've experienced a few exceptions in my life.
The most important being my Mom. From childhood to adulthood she was nothing short then a caring parent. I lived with her without knowing religion, spirtuality, or secular beliefs. She brought me and my two sisters up in an enviroment that just didn't include anything of that nature.
Only till I was much older did I find out my mom was just about the most spiritually/religious person i've ever met. She NEVER ever talked about it to us, it was almost like she didn't want to. Whatever her reason, we found out the barn she built for yard work was stocked with every book from Jewish Mystism to Roman/Greek Myth. We were kinda shocked that she could hide something like this, and it wasn't because we were ignorant, she simple lived a life were her beliefs were absent of regular/our lives.
Even today when our family has philosphical and religious conversations she never includes herself. She'll never mention anything remotely religous unless you ask her, in which she'll give you a horrible look, and after alot of begging, give you just about every human view on the matter you can bear to hear.
She told us her views on everything, all of them being different from what she taught us.
My mom sincerly brought us up so that we could choose, discover, and learn what we found to be true. She believes whatever she choose and NEVER forces it on anyone. I can't even truthfully say she believes in god(s), but she observed and respected just about anything relating to it. I can safely say she was a spiritual person, and maybe thats not the right word for her.
