While I appreciate Michael's view that religious posts do not offend him, over the last few years we have found, in painful ways on this board, that they do offend some. We have gotten off into faith healing vs. treatment, cancer as something that God put in your path to be overcome (too many do not) God not giving you challenges that you can't deal with (please tell that to the family members of those who have lost their loved ones here), and more. We have seen Christianity, which is a religion that was taught as one of love and tolerance, to have proponents here with no tolerance as found in some people's postings, in particular a couple of years ago trashing a Buddhist poster that we had. (We won't go into various religions toll on humanity through the crusades, the Spanish inquisition, and so much more.) Those hurtful postings have all been deleted from these forums. We have had strong science people on the board get into theological discussions with creationists, finally leaving, and taking the valuable oncology based knowledge with them over it all

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.