Stumbled upon this concept of “pilgrimages”. I feel like it’s become a less
known idea, of traveling with a religious purpose to a specific religious place.
I guess for me it gives more of a purpose to travel, which sometimes otherwise
seems to seem less appealing to me. (I’ve heard the word “travel...
I had a colleague who was also atheist, but used to walk medieval pilgrimages on holiday. His reasoning is that by virtue of being medieval they would go through a lot of historical towns some of which would be lesser known. So he'd see a bunch of places that he'd otherwise not think of going.
I am an atheist. So pretty easy. But you have to remember that where I come from most people are atheist. 51% of Scottish people don't believe in anything religious. But many of my friends were religious (catholic, church of Scotland, baptist, Sunni Muslim, not Calvinists though they're miserable bastards) and we got along just fine. This friend is unusual because he's Portuguese and atheist.