HP Ahh, the difficulties in effectively communicating through message boards, especially for someone as ADHD as me.
I never meant to suggest in any of my comments to you that I thought you were blindly following your religion. They were meant to be general statements. Nothing you have ever said here has given me the impression that you don't think things through thoroughly (wow, 4 TH's in a row!). I am sorry that my statements came across being judgemental of you, especially since I try very hard not to be judgemental.
I do think you are unusual in that regard though. Most people I know that are religious do not take the time to really think about why they believe what they do. NOTE: this is not me looking down on them in anyway though. If it makes people happy to blindly follow some ideal, more power to them. I do wish people would think more about what they are doing, but so long as they don't hurt anybody, I'll let them be. Unfortunately, often times people do get hurt, whether by simple words spoken out of ignorance or by physical acts precipitated by dogma.
There are a few "church fathers" that are specific to each denomination (Calvin, Luther, etc.), but you are right for the most part we are all cut from the same cloth. I hear what you are saying about followers being a necessary element in society. Kindof a different way of saying there can't be too many chefs in the kitchen, eh?
So you thing I zing this way and that? Whatever gave you that idea?
Let me reiterate one more time, none of my comments were intended to be judgemental of your faith. I respect what you believe and the obvious thought you have put into it.
Sorry to get your thread off on such a tangent.
"Recollect me darlin, raise me to your lips, two undernourished egos, four rotating hips"
