or when i walk out of church, ifeel less. i feel my scepticism is a little less. it is more distant. you put it at bay. yeah. but that struggle, the struggle is very much where i am, in regard to religion and the ideas of god and christian ideas. it is a struggle. i have by no means arrived anywhere on that kind of thing. do you think that arthur s death strengthened your faith? yes. i think a lot of things happened. i think the writing of the book, weirdly enough, did that. the book itself starts with a. ..a kind of nervousness around questions of faith, and ends, ends more firm about those sorts of things. when i talk about. when we are talking
we are all spiritual. but religion requires. it s spirituality with rigour. it requires something of us. and that action, i think, is probably what it is all about. so, what does being religious require of you? for me, i am more inclined to do religious things, like go to church, pray, read scripture. i mean, i have always done these things anyway, actually. even in my most chaotic times, i ve done those sorts of things. but i feel that when i walk, when i read scripture or when i walk out of church, ifeel less. i feel my scepticism is a little less. it is more distant. you put it at bay. yeah.
and that action, i think, is probably what it is all about. so, what does being religious require of you? for me, i am more inclined to do religious things, like go to church, pray, read scripture. i mean, i have always done these things anyway, actually. even in my most chaotic times, i ve done those sorts of things. but i feel that when i walk, when i read scripture or when i walk out of church, ifeel less. i feel my scepticism is a little less. it is more distant. you put it at bay. yeah. but that struggle, the struggle is very much where i am, in regard to religion and the ideas of god and christian ideas.