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Phyllis, That isn't quite true. In Chaim Potok's novels The Chosen and The Promise, one of the main characters (Danny) was Hasidic ultra-Orthodox, and his friend was what we'd call Modern Orthodox, or maybe a little bit to the right of that, but not as fanatically conservative as Danny's...

Dream, I read through a few of the first replies including yours and then clicked "Yes," so I'm the one who upset the balance. If I feel passionately about something, it inevitably means I have accepted or embraced one POV (feminism, for example) and therefore strongly rejected its opposite...

Saltmeister, Sorry it took me so long to get back to you, but I was having trouble accessing the board yesterday. I think my Java software needed updating. Nah...Dauer isn't a rabbi, but for all I know he may be planning on becoming one. And he isn't dead or in the hospital either. I...

PD, I disagree with the assertion that a community of 100,000 people isn't viable. That's the equivalent of a large town or small city, or somewhere between the two. I can't believe a population of that size can't be a viable community, unless the leaders (mayor, city manager, police chief...

Janz, Thank you for posting this article. It presents an interesting perspective on Cordoba House, and one I haven't encountered before. I was involved in a debate about this project on another forum about a month ago, and there was quite a bit of knee-jerk Islamophobia to get out of the way...

Hi Chris, I'm sorry I took so long getting back to this wonderful post of yours. I just saved it in MS Word because I'm pretty sure I won't be able to answer every point you raised it one post, given my penchant for writing six long paragraphs in reply to three sentences. I do that all the...

Beautiful, beautiful post, Chris! I'm tired right now but I'll come back to it later when I can give it the attention it deserves. Right now all I want to say is I that I thank the Goddess for friends like you! Without you my sanity would be on even shakier ground than it usually...

Dogbrain, You are really insulting and I'm getting sick and tired of it. I don't believe I ever called either you or Thomas ignorant, or a hater, or a bigot or anything comparable. I told Thomas early in the thread that he was being condescending, but I don't consider that comparable to any of...

Bertrand, LOL! Your compliments are much appreciated. As you see, my rebellious spirit and in-your-face style aren't to everybody's taste. There's only one slight problem with aligning myself with atheists, though...I'm not an atheist! They are one of the few groups I usually don't argue with...

Dogbrain, I'll ignore you, because I really dislike your assumptions about me. I especially dislike being called a bigot, although I will admit to having tremendous intolerance for the intolerant. --Linda

Thomas, The Church has not apologized. Pope John Paul II apologized on behalf of "some Catholics," NOT on behalf of the Church. Even though it was understood that "some Catholics" included several Popes, it won't be good enough until a pope apologizes on behalf of the Church as an institution...

Saltmeister, Not at all. Please don't embarrass my Wiccan daughter by saying that, any more than she'd be embarrassed if she read some of those posts I wrote yesterday. I haven't looked at the post you're talking about recently, but I remember it. I'm pretty sure it was addressed to Avi...

Thank you, Ciel. The gradiloquence sort of gives him away, doesn't it?

Thomas, And you know what exactly about my intent? I posted some pretty long notes yesterday on a pretty wide range of topics. The intent varied depending on what the subject was. Most often, my intent is to wake people up to what they are doing. In your case, it's to try--if possible--to...

There is a lot more, but maybe I'll just let you think that. But you could avoid provoking it, you know. I absolutely cannot stand that smug, superior, patronizing tone of the Catholic apologist. I'd say you have no idea how it enrages me, but I think you do because you've been on the receiving...

Repressing anger absolutely does not work. Expressing it doesn't work either. So just what the hell do you DO with it? --Linda

I just wrote a long post about hatred, because it's a feeling I know intimately and I'm not shy about calling it exactly what it is. It probably would have shocked everyone, but at least it was honest. And then something happened when I tried to post it and I lost the whole thing! I can't...

Now that's funny! But I'm not going to explain why. :D

Shawn, I thought of that myself when I was writing that post. It really is totally ironic that the word catholic means "universal." I have also said more than once (again with a considerable sense of irony) that the three main strands of my particular brand of syncretism, i.e. Judaism...

LOL!!! I make damn sure no man who was ever involved with me forgets me...not even if he wants to!!! --Linda