>>>You made that up. It's easy to publish polemics against religion. Still so what. It's also easy to publish polemics against ragheads and fags. There's an approving audience that already agrees, and then there's everybody else.
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>>John, I don't put groups of individuals under a microscope - I look at ideas.
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>>I know this is all a very touchy subject for you - but this is one of the crudest things I've heard up here in a long time.
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>Which is saying a lot!
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>When I started this thread, back when the world was young, I had no idea it would morph from a brief mention of the demise of Windows XP to a cosmic discussion of religion. That's the UT, I guess. (And I have certainly been guilty of drifting threads myself).

What did you expect, the demise of Windows XP brings up a lot of apocalyptic feelings to most of us. From now on we need to look for a higher purpose in our lives, unless Microsoft gives us a new reason to be optimistic.