Welp, I've been doing a little traveling over the last 12 hours and had no chance to catch this thread early.

A lot of editorializing aside (as I still have jet lag), welcome to what is destined to be the longest thread ever on the Campfire.

From now on, religious threads will be merged into this one, so thaat they are contained in one place.

Newsflash: We TRIED to have a healthy religious forum. For three years I struggled with its incarnation. Didn't work.

SO now, we'll have a gigantic religious thread.

rb

"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine