Michael Scott Williams wrote: >> As long as those people aren't religious fundamentalists, whom we KNOW are wrong, right Harold? << Good point, Michael. A point that I'm very familiar with, as I have many family members, and friends as well, that are fundamentalists, whom I love very dearly. In fact, I, formerly, am one myself, so I apprecaite this balance to my post. God is ineffable, sure. No one has a handle on "She-He-It", including SC. And it's very un-fundamentalish (sic) to see it this way. So how do we handle the Islamic Wahhabists, the fundamentalist branch of Islam, -- the ones that support the overthrow of the Western World; particularly of America? I guess we could bomb them into submission, and death, to rid the world of them. Or, thru an expanded view of God, we could include them, -- love them, -- into the human family; as imagebears just as we. But to do this, we'd have to let go of our own fundamentalist thinking. Something needs to be done; we're (the human race) are killing each other over this crap. Maybe we don't know God, and none of us has a handle on "Him", but, Good God!, we don't have to kill each other in his name. Do we? Mike continues: >> I know I'm not in ANY position to judge whether someone's religious views are correct -- I don't know. << Mike, I don't know you from Adam's cat. But I can say this for sure: "You are not a fundamentalist." Fundamentalist don't know that they don't know. Mike again: >> To take his understanding as something we all need to take on as his own goes against Twain's own appreciation for being "your own thinker," so it goes -- to reason things out on your own. << Now you're talkin'. And that's why I say, teaching Letters from Earth in our schools would be a good start in learning how to think for ourselves, and not just take answers unquestioned, -- like those from the pulpits, as Twain would say. Thanks Mike, for your correction, and saving me from giving everyone a false impression of what I meant. Thanks for being straight-forward, and plain speaking.... The world needs more of that.... And, it's very Twainish to do so. Harold