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How to explain religious practices that feel meaningless to you

My eight-year-old asked me why we cover our heads in gurdwara and I realized I do it because my parents did but I have never felt any spiritual significance in the practice myself.

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The responsibility of religious transmission reveals the poverty of inherited habits that carry no living spiritual content.

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