yes, well, I certainly can understand your frustration. I also get pretty sick of being tossed in a basket full of thoughtless heathens when I dare to express a world view that doesn't align itself with what someone else defines as "faith" these days.

Conversation is all about finding out on an individual basis what the other is thinking and what shaped that person's approach to the subject matter. Argument is about broadcasting your opinion as loudly and insistently as possible in the attempt to bludgeon your opposition into submission. Much of what passes for public discourse these days is full of the latter and not much interested in the former. Occasionally, some actual conversation takes place here on the 'Cat, and that is most welcomed.

WW