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"I'm spiritual but I'm not religious" is now a commonplace among people in Britain, the majority of whose population live their lives without reference to organised religion. In my role as an Anglican priest, I meet significant numbers of people who are on the cusp of leaving the church or on the cusp of wondering whether there's anything in it - people who are very unsure about the role faith or religious practice should or does have in contemporary society. I met a woman recently who works in the NHS who said that she found it a lot easier to say to work colleagues that she was gay than a Christian, as it was hard to be associated with the church in this generation.
“我有精神信仰，但我不信宗教”，這是英國民眾當(dāng)下的口頭禪，大部分英國民眾都不參加有組織的宗教活動。作為英國國教牧師，我遇到過相當(dāng)一部分英國民眾正游離于遠(yuǎn)離教會的邊緣或正在思考宗教到底有些什么內(nèi)容 -- 他們懷疑宗教活動或者宗教信仰在當(dāng)代社會到底有什么作用，或者應(yīng)該起一個(gè)什么樣的作用。我最近碰到個(gè)在NHS工作的女性，她說與其跟同事說自己信教，還不如說自己是個(gè)同性戀來的好理解，因?yàn)檫@一代人很難跟教會產(chǎn)生共鳴。
