Deda, you did say lovely things; you expressed my own feelings much better than I could have.

I only wish your statement that "anyone over the age of 12 or so knows it isn't the old bearded guy on the cloud, it isn't just a Judeo-Christian form of Zeus" were really true. Unfortunately, I'm afraid a lot of people just can't give up the "old bearded guy," and seem intent on imposing all of his scriptural decrees on the rest of us.