re: #108 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Raised Methodist here but somehow missed the āmust shun atheistsā bit. Weird, I guess.
I donāt know, I was raised Episcopalian, and we didnāt get that memo either. I have to say that, even though I left it long ago, the Episcopal church is about as close to a YMMV faith as I know of. No Catholic guilt, no Baptist hellfire, no evangelical end times. Also no bullshit about how the āwineā in the Bible was really grape juice. OTOH, listening to an Episcopal congregation try to sing hymns is like listening to a hundred gerbils rustling sawdust.