@Adirondackwannabe I was working on a long complicated answer; because this is a subject that interests me, but it interesting that you found it moving, surprisingly moving, apparently.
I won’t go into my “religious” beliefs, for several reasons, including that they are almost entirely defined by what I don’t believe, and that is almost everything, in terms of the doctrine, dogma and theology of all world religions, that they are kind of idiosyncratic and because they personal… but, one of my two best friends, one is a gay lapsed Catholic and the other an atheist… (run on sentence alert!) ... my atheist friend told me that on her last trip to Europe, with her family, she got a chance, just a matter of pure luck, to visit Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris when a mass was actually being performed, I would died for that, well, maybe not, but my atheist friend found the whole thing very moving in a way that really surprised her too.
LOL. That is, apparently, my not long complicated answer. I’m sure you can’t wait for my actual long, complicated answer.