It only matters how they act or do ................

I've been tempted myself, although I am of an unrelentingly Puritan nature.

There was a time in America when no one would speak of polictics or religion in polite company. It was part of a genteel past, when everyone realized that pushing their views onto others was, to put it nicely, impolite.

If your crowd hadn't rallied to push religion, and the religion that is politics, which has actually replaced religion among the cancervative minority, to the fore in American discourse, you'd be able to go back to your chair by the fire and take up your knitting again, silently damning everyone you know to hell with each knit and perl, with a silent, self-satisfied prayer or frenzied shout of "GLORY!" in between, and making sure to catch the cat's tail under your chair's rockers as often as possible.

Who cares? Honestly? Yes, younger people have a more open outlook on the world, are questioning everything they've been taught (thank "god&quot , and are trying to navigate a world in which American jobs have been moved to communist slave labor--even as most of us learned in school that communists were BAD!, yet now we can buy few items not made or sourced by them, the very communists we were told would kill us given the chance.

I do admire your perseverance, in trying to corral the "unchurched" into an arena where you can see them controlled and disciplined by the same constraints you seem to need, but those of us who think for ourselves are necessarily free-range and will tear down any fences that seek to contain us.

For one thing, put down your Saturday Evening Post and look at history. Religion and politics has been a part of this country from the very beginning. Of course people talked about it and then acted on their talk.

I would say you're talking to yourself but when you say "your crowd" I see you're vividly imagining something you think is there.

As to "communist slave labor", I can only laugh. Your stereotypes I see are not confined to religion. If you are making some lurching reference to China, well, don't confuse a Mao jacket with an actual political system. It is now out-Baining Bain itself.

Your last paragraph? Ok, sure, sure, whatever you say. I'd hate to upset you in your present state.

Though if you're 'lucky' you might get a supercilious reply.