Steve: I liked your 8:07p post a lot. Though it may sound a bit odd, I think that it is a profound act of faith to walk out of the church and close door behind you. And that faith is in your own conscience and your own ability to reason.

Thank you, but I didn't walk out as an act of faith. I walked out because I finally saw the need for evidence (I'm a simple chap, you know). My conscience (which generally serves me well enough, imperfect wretch that I am), is a free-flying affair, unattached to any faith or philosophy. Just the need to be a fine, upstanding chap who loves his friends and family, worries about all sorts of stuff and plays the harmonica to the best of his ability down the boozer of a Friday night. Of course, I usually fail abysmally on all counts, but one has to keep trying. God has yet to intervene.