Eric, In case you haven't noticed, plenty of bad things have been done by Christians. I have lived through the civil war in Yugoslavia, in which thousands of Muslims were killed, but I still have Christian friends and so on. I don't know what insulated world you lived in before 9/11, but your subsequent reactions strike me as self-righteous, childish, and arrogant. Pardon me for not intending to relate to your recent posts seriously. O.K. Imagine that Christian extremists hijack a jet and crash it into the Kaaba in Mecca, and the Christian co-religionists here refuse to help sort them out. Ursula: But yes, given the turned table I posited, I can see your scenario happening. Eric: And if that happened, wouldn't the world be justified in mistrusting Christians? It would show that they tacitly supported the extremists and their claim to represent a religion of peace was bogus. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html