[Hoot Gibson]

I didn't applaud, or say if I agreed with them or not, I just stated what they said, and their intentions.

As for your post, I applaud that you talked to me in a very respectful manner, and thank you for that. As promised, I am trying to learn to be respectful of Christian beliefs, as that is the hardest religion for me to accept, because I personally know so many mean and crooked Christians. I'm sure it's not the only religion that has that type of persons, but I can only go by the religious people I have met, which is limited to Christians. I truly believe their Jesus is a very different person than a big percentage of his followers that I have met, though I have met a few that "live the life", and I treat them with the utmost respect.

:Thumbs: I have never met a Hindu that I have not liked but I am sure that there are many mean and crooked Hindus in the world as well.

The fact that most of the people who claim to be religious in this country are Christians means that we both can probably cite more Christian phonies as examples than those claiming membership in other churches. That does not mean that those people are, in fact, Christians, as the most dishonest, loathsome people among us would not think twice about falsely claiming to be Christians for personal gain.

It turns my stomach to watch dishonest politicians courting voters in churches or by staging photo-ops with influential religious leaders purely for political gain. Unfortunately, such poseurs can often cite chapter and verse with the best of them.