Thank you! That's such a nice thing to say! Now if only I could manage to practice what I write, I'd be doing OK :) *g* But no, I know. Up until a couple of years ago, I'd never really encountered the scary, condemnatory, rabid h8er side of the church before. I very naively assumed it was full of people who were doing their best to live up to Christ. Little did I know! Since then, though, I've been following the debate about homosexuality, and seen the lying and the sheer bigotry that some so called Christians engage in, and I would not hesitate to apply the word 'evil' to that kind of fundementalist religion. Which is a sad thing to say.

So I know exactly where you're coming from - it's just that although they may think they represent the purest form of Christianity, there are pockets of the real thing still going on. (Interestingly enough, often brightest and most incredibly moving in the GBLT churches. I sometimes think that one day the MCC will be the only genuine church left.)

Sorry, I'm waffling now, when 'no offense taken' would have done just as well :)