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The secular magazine ''The European'' writes about atheist/secular funerals:

The secular magazine ''The European'' writes about atheist/secular funerals:

{{Cquote|Yet – and it feels like heresy to write this – secular funerals, for all their sincerity, individuality, and mixture of celebration and mourning, lack something. Not spirituality of course, nor hope for the future: in this context realism should prevail over comforting illusion. What is missing is the power of ritual repetition.<ref>[http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/nigel-warburton--2/6796-atheist-rituals A Secular Funeral]</ref>}}  

{{Cquote|Yet – and it feels like heresy to write this – secular funerals, for all their sincerity, individuality, and mixture of celebration and mourning, lack something. Not spirituality of course, nor hope for the future: in this context realism should prevail over comforting illusion. What is missing is the power of ritual repetition.<ref>[http://www.theeuropean-magazine.com/nigel-warburton--2/6796-atheist-rituals A Secular Funeral]</ref>}}  

 

British Reverend Giles Fraser, on [[Secular humanism|secular]] funerals, article in ''The Guardian'':

British Reverend Giles Fraser, on [[Secular humanism|secular]] funerals, article in ''The Guardian'':

{{cquote|And it was here, in this, the religious part of the service, that Cilla was not a celebrity standing before an audience, but a human being standing naked before God. There is a basic democracy in this aspect of religion that is often absent from the secular funeral...

{{cquote|And it was here, in this, the religious part of the service, that Cilla was not a celebrity standing before an audience, but a human being standing naked before God. There is a basic democracy in this aspect of religion that is often absent from the secular funeral...