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As you know, China means "Middle Kingdom", and all the world shall worship her again. Just you wait.
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agnostic shia ?? i am sure you meant non observant .right?
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No, most of my Iranian clients are agnostic Shia. They are ambivalent about God, and really don't accept Mohammed as God's prophet, they do not wish to head to Mecca, they do not pay to charity, do not pray five times a day and just ignore Islam.
Some have even married Jewish and Christian women.
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This is in large part what European Christianity is, and in some part Judaism. Mormonism is an odd duck in that its agnostics are rare. To the average westerner, a Shia is one who bloodies himself on his trip to Iraq, and then sadly engages in roadside bombings. That is all one sees of the Shia.
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It is also somewhat reminiscent of a Hindu's coming of age ritual of piercing the skin under hypnosis without the dropping of blood, except an ascetic Catholic or devout Shia actually sheds their own blood.
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you mentioned about the nonreligious reasons to remain attached to the culture ...
i am hardly struggling to realise what would really remian of being a shia and yet not believing in god culturally? you probably meant iranian cultural right? if the answer is yes..i am sure they could enjoy being iranian without being called shia .
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