Thank you for reading my long-ass post, many of you.

It is hard to discuss the whole faith/god/religion thang (as we say here) without the inevitable fallout from all the evil that happens and is happening and will happen again in its name.

O and thank you much for the link to I Ain't Afraid, too. I don't see how they can remain unafraid of the mosques/churches/temples/gods, given their fear of what is best taught there. I mean, it would be a lot harder to teach anywhere else. Not to mention that if you rise above the god/religion/faith thing, why would you then have to search for yet another higher power? Couldn't you just relax?

The obverse, of course, is that all the *good* that people can do through community effort can be done by good people without religion/faith/gods, all it takes is community spirit. Look at the masses of people who went to Obama's inauguration or the midnight release of the latest Harry Potter book. Wouldn't it be nice to see all those people united for something like, oh, say, poverty?