Ah, yes, but the Spanish Inquisition is just about to pounce on Guest, and subject him/her to the most hideous tortures...and remember...NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!   :-)

What I was saying "Hear! Hear!" to up there was Jerry Rasmussen's post, by the way.

Like Amos, I appear to be a secular mystic with an interest in all religious traditions, but bound to none of them. I appear to fit sections 1(b), 1(c>, and 2 in Guest's quote of Webster's definition of secular.

I believe in numerous tenets of various religions...such as the tenet of reincarnation, the tenet of an immortal soul, etc, etc, etc...and yet I am quite free of either engaging in or suffering religious oppression.

Methinks Guest is subconsciously reliving some kind of nasty experience from a previous life...perhaps being siezed by the Inquisition in 1540 or something. Either that or Guest is the angry child of a rigidly religious family. Preacher's sons are often the most vociferous of all atheists, in my experience.

- LH