LEJ - Well, yeah, eh? I've been criticizing organized religion ever since I was 6 years old. I only went to Sunday school once, because I simply could not buy the crazy stuff they were telling us. Furthermore, I never went to church during my entire childhood and adolescence...except for a wedding once or twice, I think.

No, it's the snide superiority implicit in the glib comments of various people who leap onto any anti-religious thread that bugs me. They're not half as smart as they think they are. While they imagine themselves as brilliant for detecting the blatantly obvious unreality of fundamentalism that I could see through when I was 6, they fail to appreciate the more subtle concepts of spirituality which they might well learn something from. As for Shambles, he tends to sometimes verge into a sort of condescending tone, and I can't help pulling his beard when he does.

But he probably sees me as doing the same thing...and I probably do...which is probably why it bugs me so much! ;-) We are all ego-driven and all fallible, and I know it.