*Alex shrugs a few times to express his indifference* I feel hostility. Again, I like passion and strong opinons and the questioning of it all. I just don't like hostility, and that's what I feel expressed at some points. It's alright. I'm just stating what I see. Furthermore, if I'm mistaken, then of course I will apologize to all involved- we Canadians are nothing if not polite. Ironically (or not...), I'm reading your Sun, Moon and Stars right now. It's pretty good so far. When it's all said and done, I may call it great. Either way, it's a neat story and incredible narrative structure. Props to you. Alex ----Original Message Follows---- From: Steven Brust <skzb at dreamcafe.com> To: "Alex Nixon" <unitcancellation at hotmail.com>, rsuitor at cjwrfs.net, dragaera at dragaera.info Subject: Re: The Religion Debate Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 18:26:27 -0800 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? _________________________________________________________________ The new MSN 8: smart spam protection and 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail