This may offend some people, though my intention is not to offend, but to make people think. Not that this caveat will keep people from being offended, but part of what I'm talking about is the ease with which people become offended about things.

I think it may be time to rethink Christianity. This is a religion that has caused more death than just about any organization in history. The Crusades, witch hunts, etc... Now we have Catholic priests molesting children, so-called fundamentalists beating gay people, and priests being censured for writing their opinion after being asked to wrtie their opinion. This happened at Darlington College in Georgia. The school asked a priest that worked for them to write his opinion on the election of that homosexual priest to the bishophric (is that the word?), and he did so. Unfortunately for him, his opinion differed with a few of the readers, so he was asked to publicy apologize. He correctly felt that showed academic and religious dishonesty, and refused, and was forced to resign from his position. One of the disgruntled parties said that he had always thought that the Bible was exact, and not subject to interpretation, whereas the priest felt God was more into spirituality, not sexuality. This sort of intolerance is ridiculous. Islam, despite its recent problems with extremist terrorists, is more tolerant than a lot of the Christian world seems to be. I don't understand how some of these people can follow Jesus and his message of compassion, and be such intolerant bastards at the same time.