While I attend Unitarian-Universalist services on Sunday (and am an active member of the church's board), I also attend a local MeetUp of wiccans and pagans. The MeetUp includes a meet and greet, a ritual, a dinner at a family-style restaurant, and an occasional night of education/craft/practice. Spiritual and social enrichment often come from different places and paths. I feel that these two offer balance and harmony in an otherwise chaotic worldly life.
i think this is a good way of looking at it. all beliefs and rituals, are things humans have made up, about things, which owe nothing to our doing so. nothing calling itself christian, is anything else either. it is simply one of the beliefs that people who have used force, to tell each other what to pretend, have used as an excuse for doing so. gods could be anything we have imagined, and even more likely, things we have neither imagined nor named. they are also completely independent of our beliefs, however common or uncommon our beliefs might happen to be.
