While I read Monica, I rarely comment on her posts. She appears to be imbued with many of the latest best sellers, in some conflict with the Church, and enamored of some theories which I consider half-baked. Obviously she is an intelligent woman, but I don’t see that she and I would have a great deal to talk about.

I have no interest in sticking my thumb into the eye of the Creator, or his Son, by heading down the path of Christianity being just one more “traditional religion”, entertaining the zany notion that “Christian theology” teaches “that our lives are conditioned by spirits”, or supporting the notion that “religions should be required to defend any of their ideas that have the potential to impact people negatively and, if those ideas prove unsubstantiated and harmful, the religion should be limited”, the last of which is straight out of China and the former Soviet Union.