I think those who want any individual to take responsibility for all their denominations ills (past, present and/or future) should show us the way by taking responsibility for changing everything bad ever done by your gender, your country, your ethnic forebears, and your childhood comic book superheroes when you weren't looking.

Pay some reparations or make some apologies on behalf of same, to a group who asked for them, too-- Native Americans, African Americans, Jews of the Holocaust, etc., women if you are male and men if you are female.... the fur-bearing animals' coalition if you ever carried a rabbit's foot-- oh the shame!!!-- as a child.....

NO??? You don't want to DO that? Huh!

Me neither!

The thread title says what it says and means what it means. The sign for EQUALS was used. The punctuation makes the offense.... if what was meant was "Let's discuss whether religion involves good folk doing bad things," then another punctuation mark would have made it clearer. Pedantic? Not meant to be-- it's just that we aren't mind-readers out here. We can only go by what is POSTED, and I think it's fair to assume people will ascribe the usual conventional meanings to words or symbols used!

[shaking head]

Or--- hey! The thread originator could have requested a thread title change---- let's go THERE!?!?!?-- or changed the message title each time he posted after being made aware of the logical reaction engendered by the sloppy titling......

[Durvenyega!]

~Susan