On Monday, June 28, 1999 at 22:07:06 (PDT) Rod Hay writes: >RH: The truth that religion holds is this. It reifies the best human >qualities abstracts them from people and assigns them to a deity. ... You mean like the part in II Kings (2:24) where God sends out two she-bears from the woods to maul 42 children because they had been teasing Elisha? Bill