text: Your reply - and its childish attempt at insult- again shows a rigid and very misplaced understanding of the Gospel message.  To be quite simple about it in hopes you might grasp my meaning, mystikali, God is not a physical being who walks the earth as God.  That was only for about 33 years centuries ago, but the commandment and teaching remains:we show love of and for God in the ways we show love for our neighbors.  To consider that any of us can love God in the same way we love others is a distortion of Christian theology.  We pray to God for a whole lot of reasons, some not very appropriate, but if we do not continuously try to love our neighbor, none of the rest matters.  It is not, as your sarcasm condemns me, about my terms.  I left "my terms" a long time ago in service to Christ and my religious community.  But I will grant you that you and I experience the Faith differently.  I am equally certain that one of us attracts far more people to, or back to, the Church than the other.