The reaction to Trump from others in the presidential race do give some comfort. The man relies on our deep id instinct rather than our considered persona.

Pete is wrong. Belief in anything comes from having to be taught it. Children have to be susceptible to what goes on around them, it is an instinctive survival mode honed over millions of years. (If you bend and look with a double mirror, you can still make out the star fish we share ancestry with.)

The most wonderful gift my parents gave me was the encouragement to learn how to think, not what to think. Something I tried to instil in my own children. Curiously, it didn't lead to any of being superstitious. So much for the influence of something not actually there.

It's one thing to have a pop at the malign influence of the other person's faith but to put your own forward as being better? It's faith as an organised tool that is the problem. The only one on here professing faith who makes any sense is Dan.

It's about you and him, not him and me. Cos I don't see him on my invite list.