Jennie. I should not have posted that, and I am sorry that I may have hurt you in doing so, that was not my intention. Now that you have replied to it, I can't really take it down, which is what I feel like I should do. I knew the venting would cause a storm, and I did it anyway. Sometimes I am not bright enough to know when to keep my opinions to myself.

I respect the faith of others, no matter which it is, and I was not suggesting anything negative about faithful people. I am spiritual in my own way as well. But you are right, Crap happens to everyone. Not just to the "other" guys, not just to bad guys, everyone. In the end I guess I am not a believer in divine intervention brought about through prayer group requests, of for that matter through any other means, having personally seen too many good people die in senseless wars and in the world of cancer. Let alone the genocides that are going on around the world, starvation of third world children and adults, and the rampant diseases worldwide that are gutting entire populations. Even massive numbers of deaths from something as common as diarrhea reach into the thousands every year. Dare I leave out the horrors that man can inflict on man unbridled by any type of intervention. These hardly seem the actions of a benevolent supreme being. For all the voices raised to change it, the horrors and pain continue, and only direct personal interventions by other humans seem to, at best, ever put a finger in the dike of it all. It has always been this way, and I suspect it will always be. That we can find balance and sanity in scattered moments of bliss and beauty through the detritus of it all is amazing, and the only saving grace.

With everyone's permission, I would like this topic discussion to end. Saying only finally that everyone's belief systems are personal and should be respected by others.... including board administrators.