You are right. I don't believe you. I don't think you are capable of understanding my perspective because you haven't had a lifetime of massively negative experiences with everything Godly, God-like or Goddish.

I'd like you to know I'm not angry, but I am a little bit insulted that you think I'm not well aware of the negative effects that religious beliefs can hold on individuals, families, and societies.

You believe in people's ability to change their institutions.

I believe in people.

I believe in institution's ability to resist change, and change people. This is practicality, and it just is.

I believe that institutions change people and that people change institutions. I'm also well aware that institutions are resistant to change, that that's an actual function of institutions, and by and large that slow resistance to change is more beneficial than it is harmful.

We're mis communicating and spinning our wheels because you want to assume. Don't assume. Inquire. Ask something new and we'll get somewhere new instead of saying the same stuff over and over again. When I said you can ask me questions, I wholly meant it.