In a message dated 5/26/2005 5:53:31 PM Central Daylight Time, graemeww@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: The reason I want to defend religion is that not all the people who might call themselves religious are so cowardly, and they don't deserve to be thought so. Hi, This reminds me a bit of R Scott Peck's book Further Along the Road Less Traveled (not the first one, the second...) and his description of the levels of belief...I don't have it with me, though. It was very helpful for me during the times when I was trying to sort out the differences between what I believed, what I had succumbed to believing, why there were such differences, etc. I had forgotten it until now...Thanks. In Houston (where on Saturday I visited a Messianic Jewish congregation--did you know that there is now a union of such--about 80 of them have joined together ... ), Marlena (usually in Missouri) ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html