pleh, the whole different gods thing is such a total mess, from both sides of the line. I don't claim to be able to sort up from down on the issue. But nor do I find it nescessary to answer every question in the universe. Guess I'm just a mindless rabid sheep after all.

Of course people are defensive/offensive about their faith! It something that is deeply and personally essential to their living, but also unprovable, imagine if we didn't have DNA testing and half of society was yelling at you that you were not your parents' children, that you were really the spawn of a cyborg and an alien and you were an idiot for ever thinking otherwise. (okay so, maybe I got a little carried away there...) People get sensitive about these things. Of course, that doesn't excuse their behavior when they then go on a killing rampage, but you get part of where they are coming from.

I don't see why faith isn't an important thing to talk about. and, I told you that I've never read philosophy on the issue, and I've also told you I didn't think that was the point. At least I'm trying to think for myself rather than just pointing and saying, "the church told me so."

Fair enough, generalisations are very rarely helpful. This was never supposed to be an attack on anyone else, just me putting a few of my ponderings on to 'paper' as such.