Hi, James!  Recently you wrote in a message to Ardith Hinton:

JB>  Hi again gorgeous!


          Who, me??  Shucks.  Anyway, welcome back.  We missed you....  :-)



JB>  Catch my words to Bailiff for a bit of an explanation
JB>  to my reticence?


          Uh-huh.  You were playing with a new toy.  Some people, once
they've discovered the Internet, find it much more exciting than life in
the slow lane and/or decide they don't have time for both.  As Shiloh
commented elsewhere, I think there is room for both in our lives.  I use
the Internet when Nora wants further information about something we've just
read about.  I use Fidonet when I've got her settled down for the night
& I want to chat with my friends.  :-)



JB>  Oh and, aren't the Godless as welcome as those of us
JB>  with... Um... "Spirit"?


          Citing the rules of the echo:

    No participants will be included or excluded on the basis of their
    vital statistics, ethnic origin, religious beliefs, medical history,
    and/or sexual preferences.


          Or, in a word, yes.  We don't include or exclude anyone on the
basis of their religion or lack thereof.  That bit about proselytizing
appears later in the rules & was added because a Christian of the
fundamentalist/evangelical persuasion was overzealous in an attempt to
convert the Unwashed Masses to her way of thinking.  It wasn't her religion
we objected to, but her determination to force it on others.  Some folks
regard atheism as a religion... some don't. Either way, AFAIC, what's sauce
for the goose is sauce for the gander....  ;-)




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