>In fairness, you and a few others do have a bee in your bonnet about religion. ;-) So what if Rick has firm beliefs and wants to talk about them? We've had evangelistic fervor around here for years about various technical issues or politicians or wars etc etc. Sometimes the most fervent types are right, and sometimes they turn out to be wrong (though IME the sarcastic ad hominem types are more likely to be wrong). But surely in the end we're looking at pixels on a monitor that only can exert any effects at all if we allow it.

All valid points. I of course think that if Rick is firm in his beliefs and wants to talk about them then I have no problem with that at all considering there is a religion section here. Of course it works both ways I want to talk about my beliefs (or in this case, lack of) as well. Odds are of course that we will never see eye to eye on it ...however as a result no one is going to go pick up guns and start shooting each other in an attempt to prove our points,,,we'll just keep yak yak yakin. To what end you ask? Well...if more people were talking and forever disagreeing instead of forever going to war and shooting each other of such mythical nonsense then the world would be a much better place.