Richard Bridge: when you say,"Has not religion done and does not religion do more harm than good?", it occurs to me that that same could be said of all of the institutions and enterprises constructed by humans. Regarding the acrimony that seems to underlie everything on this forum, might one not ask, "Has not Mudcat done, and does not Mudcat do, more harm than good?"

I think Mudcat is dying, since so much of what was good is gone, and so much of what is left is embodied in this thread. I, for one, will miss even the most contentious of you, so everybody, please leave a way that we can check up on you from time to time (though Steve Shaw, for instance, is one of a kind, there are many who use that name, so Googling doesn't help much).