No one asked me, but that's never stopped me before.

God isn't interested. So leave him/her/it out of the discussion. I could care less--although it confounds me how--what anyone's thoughts are about G/g/o/-d's real intentions were/are/will be to do with the conversations the deity gets dragged into.

I seldom get pissed off, but I allow myself to once in a blue moon. This is the day.

When Thurber wrote about the rabbits, when Mowat wrote about the wolves, when White wrote about the spiders, do any of you really think they wrote about the creatures for the sake of those creatures?

The stories were examinations of the human conscience, not examinations of the gods or the things the gods say. Take issue with ideas, not people. As animals living on this planet--one of the higher intelligenced animals that discovered technologies before our fellow denizens--we have demonstrated the ability to be brilliant, heartless and utterly stupid.

If the Mudcat should someday be the only remnant of our existence as a 'race', maybe we all oughta think about what we'll be leaving behind.

Thank you for allowing me to get that off my chest.

PS This is not addressed to John or anyone else. Quite the opposite. I have room in my life for people with different ideas. But fights ain't ideas, they're fights.