Steve, you were brought up with a theistic perspective that didn't satisfy you, and you rejected it. I respect you for doing that.

I was brought up with a theistic perspective that DID satisfy me, and I built on it and made it my own. Mine fits very well with science and evolution and homosexuality and any number of things that you also find important. I'm sure I rejected many concepts that you also rejected (like sappy poetry, for instance), but I found a way of thinking that is satisfying to me.

Did it ever occur to you that your left-behind theistic perspective and my current one, might be quite different?

You and Musket and Donuel and raggytash and so many others present a definition of religion that is nothing at all like the religious faith I practice. If religion were like what you define, I wouldn't want it, either.

-Joe Offer-