At 01:23 PM 11/29/2002 -0400, Alex Nixon wrote: >My problem is not with his questioning of religion's place in our society. >It is with the anger and resentment he expresses towards it. >Given that religion isn't going away anytime soon, I feel it would be more >productive to continue to question its importance, but do so with a lot >less hostility. Oh, Feh. What you're reading as hostility is simply passion. And I, for one, think that if one is not passionate about a discussion, the discussion stops being fun. No one has introduced personalities, we've all just been expression strong opinions about things we all feel are very important. What's wrong with that?