Originally Posted by antelope_sniper
...mom taking you to Mass doesn't saddle you with the entirety of the Catholic faith...


Gotcha again... It wasn't Mom. I went on my own after a friend asked me if I wanted to go and see what Mass was like. I jumped at the opportunity. grin

People's beliefs continually amaze me, too.

Something I have learned to do is accept that their beliefs are theirs, not mine and I have no business meddling with them.

I'd rather my "walk" do the talking. If someone really wants to know why I am as I am, I'll be glad to share.
There are many ways of communicating, speech and the written words are but two of them.

Something you continually seem to miss, that I have tried to get across, and evidently have not done a good job of, is that you cannot compare "faith" to empirical argument. Apples to granite again.

Ed

"Not in an open forum, where truth has less value than opinions, where all opinions are equally welcome regardless of their origins, rationale, inanity, or truth, where opinions are neither of equal value nor decisive." Ken Howell