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Date: 27 January 2008 07:03:56
Yesterday I went wandering around London with some Christians before we retired to the pub and this morning I've discovered an agnostic.
Now, whilst these events aren't strictly linked I thought that was an interesting opening...Ok, I'll explain.
Yesterday I did a Vauxhall and Pimlico Walk with a couple of SOF people before retiring to the pub for the Gambit Memorial Shipmeet. Highlight of the walk for me was Bonnington Square which was beautiful and had a wonderful community vibe eminating from it. To explain I think I need to quote the bit of blurb from the London-Footprints website about it:
"Bonnington Square was built in the 1870s for railway workers and in the 1970s the houses were compulsorily purchased by the GLC. Left empty, squatted then leased, in 1998 LB Lambeth enabled the residents to form themselves into a co-op in order to buy the property. The communal garden (open to the public) is on the site of WWII bomb damage which in the 1970s was laid out as playground. This fell into disrepair and in 1990 a builder applied to use the site for storage at which time residents formed a Garden Association with the aim of transforming it into a 'Pleasure Garden'. Money was raised by August 1994 and the garden was designed by local residents and an architectural firm. Planting mixes classic English and the exotic tropical including a walnut tree, banana and bamboo. Features in the garden include the Wheel, a 1860s industrial artefact rescued from a nearby marble factory. The Garden Association has since planted trees, vines and street gardens in the surrounding neighbourhood."
In the evening it was good to meet up with various other SOF people, (including a number of Wib-Ship hybrids).
As for this morning I'm an agnostic, I did a Facebook quiz on "How Religious Are You" and the results showed that I was an agnostic. In this case I think the quiz is most definately wrong, it just didn't allow for those of us who have faith in the God we know (or rather we catch glimpses of) rather than swallowing whole the one the institution tries to sell us, (oh and didn't allow for an answer which would have said God started the process of evolution). In reality I guess I'm still a radical, realist, Feminist, broadly evangelical Christian with traditional Baptist underpinning and I guess that is why I'm never going to fit the boxes on Facebook (or in quite a few other places either).