Dear and very erudite and empassioned sisters of the Order of the Interminable Religious Intractability.
I have watched you both defend your view points admirably and with enormous candour and you both in your own ways manage to make very pertinent points........... which you can back up with each of your own researched, or not, feelings and gleaned facts and figures. You both mention things that show how committed you are to your particular camp.. and for that immense passion, that determined position to have the last say I commend you. I have to say I am not going to enter into any of it as there seems to be no healing possible in religious conflicts. Who am I to commend you? I am no one. I have no religious faith that can be determined by any rule book or document of social control but the christian faith would claim I live by the 10 commandments. (thank whoever that THOU SHALT NOT SMOKE is not one of them) .It is possible that I also live by an enormous number of Islamic laws (smoking excepted) as well.. Maybe some bhuddist ones some hindu ones.. who the hell knows and more to the point who the hell really cares......I know you both do, but the caring is ultimately about making your point stick on the other and that will not happen ever... I think it is possible to find that there is good in both of you as either committed catholic or atheist (lower case for both not intended to cause offence but to accord them their equal status in my eyes). Causes, that we take to our hearts, causes that we would die for, are named "causes" because ultimately they CAUSE SOMETHING to happen in our lives. They may bring light, or darkness depending on whether your are the cause or the one affected by it... A cause for the good can still kill the good depending on which sideof the line you stand... I think the deciding question to determine the similarities that brought you both together (at least for me) is..... DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE ACRONYM SIQUOMB? Peace and love to you both... Lucy
