I'm a chocolate milkshake, rich and brown
Grab your straw and drink me down
Just ignore the fat count, go for taste,
Watch me go straight to your waist!
Who can so remind you of days gone by!
Chocolate, chocolate, milkshake I!

(There...now it's a musical thread!)

Michael R:

People find their truths in different ways. And then they do different things with them. Some ponder, some dramatize their "rightness" and some use them to live the best way they can.

I expect that if the religion were removed entirely from the picture, the dramatizers would still dramatize, the ponderers would ponder on, and the people who cared to do so would seek ways to live well.

Aardvarks are more tolerant than hippos, except if you're an ant, I guess. Better looking, too -- unless you're a hippo your own self. :>)

A