Quote Originally Posted by Grog View Post
This thread is under 'Cycling topics' I believe because Eden (is that right?) started a poll about how church-going habits and cycling habits coexisted.

I would agree with moving the thread under non-cycling open topics if a moderator wants to do that. However I don't think crazycanuck would be kicked out for what she has to say. A number of us, including myself, have expressed disagreement, skepticism, or other non-churchly feelings, done so respectfully, and the discussion has only grown better... I am in fact quite impressed at the level of maturity I have read here.

I wouldn't promote TE as a spirituality forum, but considering that many have expressed that riding their bikes in nature is a spiritual experience... well I can tolerate a thread on such a topic once in a while.

Let me first say I've been impressed with all of you and that you have remained quite open minded. My intent was definitely not to debate or cause debate about any particular religion, but I am truely curious about the interaction and maybe this comes from the fact that I am not religious and wasn't raised as such so I wonder about it at times. I guess I was really curious to know if we are a less religious group than the non-cycling community or if it was just my personal bias. At least as far as organized religion goes and it seems that we are. I won't attempt to draw any conclusions from that because I don't think that it is possible from a small group such as this and there are plenty of variables that could explain it other than cycling and probably plenty of explanations that could be related to cycling that I can't get at with such a small poll.

The one thing that I do find to be interesting is that no one rearranged their religious service to free their weekends. I thank you all for satisfying my curiosity and remaining in civil conversation. And please feel free to happily retire this thread.