Don't patronise me please, Don. I am perfectly well aware of the distinction you make between faith and religion, and when I wrote 'religion', that was the one I meant -- i.e the formal usages and organisation into which the faith of the family into which my subject was born had been organised. My point holds -- that formalisation, as well as the faith itself, was what I had found unnecessary. I think even your 'faith' a bit otiose, in fact, not myself feeling the need for even that much of an anagogic approach to my environment.

So they had better not lump you & me together too readily for a start had they?

Regards

~M~