John, I'm sure that in Judaism, as in Christianity or Islam, there are a great many different viewpoints. I would expect that. I would expect some Jews to be more flexible and less judgemental than others. That's what I like about people...they are infinite in their variety and uniqueness...and they bring that to their approaches on religion as well.

The only thing that really scares me is when I see a group of people who are all rigorously the same in their viewpoints.

And that's one of the things that has tended to make me avoid participating in:

1. organized religions
2. political parties
3. and other similar organizations which cling to a specific dogma

Slag - Well, hey, I'll PM you about that stuff, okay? You ask some good questions.

Kent: "You also hold the position you think is right. You think that God - if He exists - doesn't care how people worship him."

Yes. But I only think that's right for ME to think that way about it, because it works for me. I don't necessarily think it's right for other people to think that way or that other people should necessarily believe the same as I do. If they find happiness and good purpose in their lives by believing something different, I don't mind. I think there are many "right" ways of being, not just one right way...because people are all different, so different people need to find different ways of being and believing that properly suit them and bring the best out of them.

For Mother Teresa it was her Roman Catholicism. Fine with me, although I am myself in no way attracted to Roman Catholicism.

I have no reason to judge my form of belief superior to hers. She did a lot more for other people in her life than I have managed to.