Musket says: I also say that your being comfortable with fundamentalists so long as they don't go for the children is rather naive wouldn't you say?

I don't think I would ever say that, Musket. I'm never comfortable with fundamentalists, because I have to be excruciatingly polite and have to watch every word I say. I'm usually comfortable with atheists, though. But I do think that fundamentalists have a right to teach their own children what they believe, and to raise them as they see fit - as long as they don't force their beliefs on tax-supported schools.

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Pete talks about my 8 yrs in seminary teaching you that scripture is not reliable for believers to follow

But Pete, I think that Scripture is very reliable - I just think you interpret it falsely when you see allegory as fact, and not as sacred stories written to teach lessons.

Certainly, sin has logical consequences - but to see unrelated misfortune as a consequence of sin, is misunderstanding the lesson Genesis is teaching. Even Jesus himself told his contemporaries to get over the idea of sin causing disabilities, most notably blindness.

-Joe Offer-