[TChris]

Umm...actually Kathleen, yes it does work that way. Christianity is a rescue religion.

Kathleen has fallen prey to the common falsehood, "I have not experienced that, therefore nobody has." or, "I have not seen that, therefore nobody has."

The more self-centered a person is, the more he will think in that way.

Millions of Christian converts, beginning perhaps with Saul of Tarsus, could point out the error of her assertion.

[Oratam]

The converse of that is true, as well. I am always shocked, surprised and eventually deeply troubled when I meet people with absolutely no religious sensibilities, i.e., honest-to-God (no pun intended) materialists.

It astounds me that one can live without ever having experienced the transcendent, what a religious person such as myself would call GOD.