I hope I'm never mean, Joe!

So, Mrr, where do people fit in who accept and treasure myth *as* myth, and not as scientific fact - people who see myth as pointing to a deeper truth that cannot be contained by words?

Unclear what you mean, sorry - but if you mean people who believe in their particular deity but nonetheless live in the real world and do not hide their children away from knowledge, then, I just wonder why they believe in their particular deity but I have no problem with them as human beings.

I think that the dogma-or-else style of deniers (that is people who deny, not people who help with corpses - denyers, maybe) are causing undeniable harm to their children if they keep them from sources of learning, as well as failing their own humanity, and thus humanity, by their steadfast refusal to question.

And, Joe, I did rephrase something a lot more barbed!