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if you ever want to experience what "cognitive dissonance" really means.....may I suggest that you do what I did. Firstly, spend the evening watching Eddie Izzard's hilariously funny live show which is wonderfully disrespectful of just about everything but especially about religion. Then, dry the tears from your eyes, drink some tea to stop you tummy hurting, get back up off the floor, catch a bit of sleep and then head off to your Goddaughter's First Communion (yes, I am a Godmother - it's a bit like asking Godzilla to babysit but I do my best). I sat through the Mass seeing it all from an Eddie Izzard Perspective and had to fight the urge to a) not fall asleep and b) not to leap up and let rip in a John-Cleese-esque kind of way. Pretty much nothing that was said made logical sense even if one believed in the whole thing. But anyway, the basic message I came away with was that a good party needs wine. So, when we went down to the lake for a post-First-Communion-family-knees-up I refused the proffered non-alcoholic aperitif and requested wine, thank you. And, lo and behold, I had fun. There might be something in this religion lark after all.