Bill: I don't scoff at your beliefs.  They are yours and you are clearly sincere in them.  I must add they are irrelevant to me.  I'm interested in how people treat other people and the world around them.  If your religion helps you be a better person, that, to me, is great.  However, I do find it a bit "off-putting" that many religious individuals (Christians and others) have the ultimate "my way or the highway" attitude; either you believe as I do or you're going to be damned to eternal hell.  Gary, agnostic and secular humanist, Crum