[YHAOS]

Thanks, betty, for the ping. I sometimes miss the more interesting threads, but I can often count on you to flag me down. I especially appreciate the HiHo since my contributions tend to run from the meager to the virtually nonexistent.

” This last is the statement of a cultural bigot.”

May I say something here? I don’t think being a rude, semi-literate goober is necessarily a Christian characteristic (or that of an Atheist, etc). It’s a human characteristic that afflicts Christians and Atheists alike (Evolutionists even). So whenever I get assailed as “a rude, semi-literate goober” (actually, I’ve never been hit with those particular pejoratives), I’m pretty well assured that something else is bugging my assailant, and, you can be reasonably certain that a drive for political domination plays its part in the assault.

[BlueDragon]

"...So whenever I get assailed as “a rude, semi-literate goober” (actually, I’ve never been hit with those particular pejoratives)..."

You know, here all this while, I never even noticed that you were such a goober.

One learns new things everyday!
Can we call you "goob" for short?
I mean, it's easier to pronounce than your freep handle. [how would one say it? yuh-house? yah-os? yowse?]

I'm only *semi*, myself, and don' talk too good, if you know what I mean...

[Soliton]

you can be reasonably certain that a drive for political domination plays its part in the assault.

Politics? No.