... it does not matter how intelligent, tolerant, loving, a theist is: their buck always stops at the pronouncement of god, beyond which no human argument can penetrate.

Bee, I'm sorry you and your mum didn't see eye to eye, but what I am saying is that there is a basis in theology from which to argue your point. To base your efforts on anything else will not get you very far. Seeing all theists and all theology from the narrow view isn't working, right?

~Susan