Thanks for that clarification Eliza. Our nautical friend got on his high horse, but I knew what you meant.

If some people interpret their Christian belief as disdaining fortune telling, Harry Potter, women, Gays or other religions, then all it says to me is that they are afraid of being exposed as "jam tomorrow" merchants themselves. It appears to me that the many people who are most comfortable with their religion are those who don't want it to dominate others, or pick and choose the bits they like. A mate of mine is a devout Muslim, won't touch alcohol or pork, can never get hold of him on a Friday and wastes away during Ramadan. That said, he prefers the interest rates for his mortgage at the building society to the Islamic alternatives. Fair play to him. Do what You feel comfortable with, not what those who get a kick out of controlling others want you to do.

Theology is an interesting subject. Insulting people's intelligence by claiming metaphysical fairy stories to be true isn't an interesting subject, it's a potentially dangerous one. A bit like the prat who say that as I was christened as a baby, I am a Christian like it or lump it. (A bit difficult to form the next sentence without using crude words such as bollocks)