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KnifeMissile,
Hi, I'm abaya's husband.
About that whole atheist vs secular wedding. When I told abaya that I didn't want a Christian or Muslim wedding, she asked me if I wanted an atheist wedding. To me, a non-religious wedding is a secular wedding. It doesn't matter what one believes at that point, if there's no religion in it, it's a secular wedding. So, if there was such a thing as an atheist wedding, I would imagine it being slightly different than a secular wedding in that it would emphasize aspects of atheism (which is not a religion or a faith, but more like a belief [mine indeed]). So that's the difference.
I guess we have a difference in semantics here, but in the end it doesn't really matter. If a wedding that doesn't mention a god is atheistic to you and secular to me, then so be it.
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