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>>A word is just a word, Doug. Every one means something different, and they are all used for a reason.
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>Again I dunno... I've seen a lot of words that sure didn't seem to have any reason attached to them over the years. <g>
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Sorry to barge in, but I have comment on something that's been bothering me since the whole Church/State thread was launched. If you go back to your original thread which in some way led to the launching of this most excellent new Chatter forum, you made a statement which alluded to impartiality on the part of the Fla. Supreme Court (suspect because they made a ruling favoring Gore), rampant hypocrisy on the part of the media, and then something to the effect that we'd better get closer to God or we're all going to hell.

In all of the posts subsequent to that, you claimed that you were simply making a statement of faith, and wondered why everybody was getting down on you about your innocent statement. I have to wonder why a simple statement of faith followed a statement of political opinion in your original post? Is it because you consider that the fact that you are faithful or closer to God makes your political opinions more righteous or unassailable than those of people who don't share your views? That's the part that's a little tricky to me, you seem to plead all sorts of inocence and high-mindedness, yet you don't seem to consider at all not just the words you used but also the way you put them together in that first post. I would be willing to bet that if you had honestly sent your political opinion and statement of faith as two separate statements, they would have been received far differently than they were.

Rod Poujade