I have no complaint against people who believe that their sense of morality, ethics, and justice came from God. The problem comes when they take the next step and believe that everyone else has to come to the same conclusions because it all came from the same deity -- theirs, of course -- and that they need to make everybody else follow their beliefs, by law or if necessary by force.

Oddly, the ones who don't find it necessary to use force all seem to believe that someday, everyone all over the world will be convinced in the rightness of their beliefs, and their religion will triumph because it's *true*. All but at most one of them are wrong, but that doesn't seem to bother them.

Actually, I care a great deal more about what you think than about what the Pope thinks; I might feel differently if he were commenting in my LJ. [grin]