This was found somewhere today. I do not recall, exactly, where--but seemed like it was getting close. Not close enough for Paul, but close for those who thought it was better to have had faith and lost it then never to have had it at all. Or was that something else... Losing your religion The experience of losing your faith, or of having lost it, is an experience that in the long run belongs to faith; or at least it can belong to faith if faith is still valuable to you, and it must be or you would not have written me about this. I don't know how the kind of faith required of a Christian living in the 20th century can be at all if it is not grounded on this experience that you are having right now of unbelief. "Lord, I believe; help my unbelief" is the most natural and most human and most agonizing prayer in the gospels, and I think it is the foundation prayer of faith. - Flannery O'Connor Thinking, still, of "faith", Marlena in Missouri (still wondering where Eric is--did he go to Star Wars, too, but end up in The Dark Side?) ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html