>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.
There you go again :-) Have you no respect for the laws of internet discourse?
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
