> I believe you are painting with a brush a little too wide.  I, as do 
> many of my Christian friends, as well as those friends of other 
> religions, have a great respect for the traditions, beliefs, etc. of 
> others.  It is usually the "true believers" on the extremes of a 
> religion who do not respect the religious rights of others.  

My apologies, Phil -- for the insinuation and to others for straying a little off topic.  I did not mean to suggest a disrespect for diverse religious cultures or rights -- such disrespect need not be a part of either theism or atheism (although it can be in BOTH cases).  My point was that concerning all  the world's other religious deities, Christian believers and non-believers are in fact fellow atheists.

At the Tulsa Zoo it is not the Hindu deity Ganesha with whom the Creationists want equal time, because they, like every other atheist, do not believe in that god's existence.  It is, rather, the science of evolution with which they want to compete  -- doesn't that seem somewhat ironic?  Creationists fear Evolution, which they portray as an atheistic philosophy -- but they do not fear Hinduism, about which the Creationists are, themselves, atheists.

Stephen


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