Well, I had a nice lengthy post all typed up, but I forgot that the proxy I use at work resets itself after a while, and lost the whole post. Arg! I'll have to type it up again, as I was rather proud of it, but it'll have to wait till later, maybe much later (like tonight or tomorrow). But I will say that what once started as the noble goal of encouraging critical thinking seems to have digressed into talking about crumbling houses of cards and the foibles of even believing what we do. Now I am a person who is willing to have this sort of conversation, and truthfully I welcome it; I had a coworker who was an atheist and we had all sorts of conversations of this nature...quite stimulating. Ironically, I ran into him a couple of weeks ago and learned that he had since converted to Christianity, and this is a very intellectual person so no one can accuse him of being a simpleton). My point is that the motives now seem less altruistic, and perhaps there are others not wanting to have their faith directly challenged, as there is a difference between encouraging a little more critical thinking and actually downright saying, "You're dead wrong."