re: #45 LudwigVanQuixote

I concur wholeheartedly.

And I say this as an agnostic who was raised immersed in Southern Baptist churches.
I was turned off as a teenager by the inconsistencies and circular logic employed by my father in his attempt to bend me to his worldview.

I was inculcated with sufficient deference to his authority that I quickly learned to shut up, in response to forceful and literal commands to, and bide my time till graduation.

I then proceeded to matriculate to a college in a western state I had never been to.
To this day some 20+ years later we engage in weekly phone calls a 1000 miles distant where we only discuss the weather and grandkids.

So sad, but he is now too physically feeble for me to ever broach a political subject with him.

I think having an outlet for such discussions is why I lurked here the last two years before finally registering.
I am gunshy even at 44 years of age regarding these discussions, but fascinated nonetheless.