Thanks for the Britannica post, Joe. That was very enlightening.

What has me shaking my head over Christian fundamentalists is that for people who maintain that the Bible is the inerrant Word of God, most of them know very little about the Bible, notwithstanding that many of them read it and quote it incessantly. It's as if they've taken a thick pack of cards, put a single Bible verse on each card, then shuffled them thoroughly. When they whip out a Bible verse in an attempt to support a point, more often than not it doesn't mean what they're trying to say it means. Pull out a Bible, find the verse they are quoting (usually they can tell you which book and chapter it's in), read the whole chapter to them, and suddenly they're completely flummoxed. Putting the verse into context and pointing out what it really says blows their whole argument.

I love torturing fundamentalists that way. They give Christians a bad name.

I've never read the Koran and I know zip about the Muslim religion, but I've heard that Muslim fundamentalists are pretty much the same way.

Don Firth