Interesting light thread. I can't stand milk, and haven't drunk any since I was a child -- although I recall going through a phase when I could tolerate milk if it was very cold and I drank it quickly, as in through a straw during school lunches. It totally grosses me out when people drink...
The membership figures for *all* religions are inflated -- if you added up all the members that religious groups claim to have, you'd end up with a number larger than the world's population. What happens is that folks coming in are counted, but those who drift away aren't subtracted. So, yeah...
Thanks for posting this article. Arguements about whether events in the Bible "really" happened kill the whole spirit of it -- it essentially lets fundamentalists set the agenda about what the Bible is and means. For centuries, Biblical interpreters acted on the basic assumption that the...
I came up with mine on another forum, where people who wished to show their displeasure with me would call me "Mrs. Bacquet" -- which is rather a way of telling me they don't like me while at the same time using impeccably good manners. The message was "I'm not going to get friendly and call you...