Well, perhaps I get overly sensitive. It seems to happen too often here that all religious groups are considered together, that all are painted as fundamentalist kooks and that religion is described as some sort of authoritarian mind control. Many of us religious people vote Democratic/Labour, despise the war in Iraq, believe in the equality of the races and the sexes and the sexual orientations, and support the humane treatment of children and animals. Heck, we might even drink a beer or sing a folk song every once in a while.

And I despise fundamentalists of every ilk, and I'm insulted when I'm grouped with them.

-Joe-