A few quick comments:

Wayne wrote:
"It disheartens me when I hear very intelligent people thinking like fundamentalists and assuming that all the religious people in the world think the same way."

I agree. But I am trying to find out how you distinguish between what is real and what is allegorical. Where do you draw the line. What if the birth wasn't virgin? What if there was no snake in the garden? What if the walls didn't tumble? What if there was no crucifixion as reported by Islam? How are you walking through the maze.

If you were not both literate and intelligent, like Blacknad, I wouldn't be interested. But obviously you are both and thus I am trying to understand how you assemble the pieces of the puzzle.
It is a treat to have you both here. We are finally developing a community capable of sentient discourse and a methodology from sending the trolls scurrying back under the bridge. Yeah!


DA Morgan