""(call it a Deity for convenience)""

I called it that because it's the only thing you can call it if you don't want the whole weight of the religiosos coming down on you like a ton of you know what.

I have previously used the word "entity" with precisely that response.

As I can only guess at what it is that my gut instinct tells me is there, it isn't possible to define it.

But I do know that it isn't what the black frock brigade would have me believe.

I don't ask them to espouse my take on the subject. Why do they feel the need to convert me to theirs?

Is their belief so weak that my (and others') lack of belief threatens them in some way?

Don T.