Thanks, Weststar. I hear what you're saying. And yet I have a sense that the present crisis has produced more of a sense, and more active expressions, of solidarity among Christians, Jews and Muslims in the United States than has ever existed before. (And not just those faith communities, but Sikhs, Bahá'ís, Hindus and Native American religionists. I haven't seen a visible Wiccan/Druidic presence, nor [oddly to my mind] a Buddhist one in these acts of solidarity yet, but that may be the fault of the reporting media rather than of the religionists.)

Liland
who will now let this thread drift back to its original topic