My apologies Bill for misreading your post. You just too good a person to get caught up in some things that looked hate based and I wasn't beating on you ... I was expressing concern. It is easy to get caught up into thinking that can become obsessive. You are right to express a view for freedom of thought.   I say that all the time. People of faith should take the time and question everything about it .. everything .. for me the math brings me back to my faith even stronger. I fear no free expression or thought, I welcome it as all people of faith should. My life is all math. Query my name in Google with Computer Science. I write like a 5th grader and always have but you will see me in everything from MIT to Stanford and pretty much every scientific journal around. For me, the math comes back to my faith each time. For others it does not and that is ok. Freedom of choice is a beautiful thing.