Yeah. Not that it’s a hard-and-fast thing; I’m not saying O’Hair was a closet theist or anything. Just my impression (and personal experience) that people secure in their own beliefs tend to not be as hostile to others’. YMMV
tracer- I don’t think Madalyn was. From what I recall of her son William’s account- her family weren’t actively religious but not really hostile to it either, just generally dysfunctional.
They even steal each other’s eggs to raise as their own. Nasty birds, swans.
It could be, but it isn’t; Bill is one of the ‘washouts’ that she mentioned to me in an earlier email - this is Bill and Bob:
She did mention in one of her more recent emails that the pressure was off as we had until August, so maybe I’ll warrant a mention next month, not that it worries me either way.
Of course it could be the case that Judith is merely honouring my expressed preference regarding publication of ‘all or none’ of our dialogue.
Hmmm … that sounds a little odd. From an evolutionary standpoint, the swans that steal other swans’ eggs and raise the chicks as their own are wasting an awful lot of effort feeding and caring for genes that aren’t their own. Perhaps they only steal the eggs of other swans that are closely related to them (e.g. first cousins), so that at least some small fraction of their own genome will be in the chicks?
Can we get a citation on that Apos?
Pardon the beating of a dead horse here, but Judith Hayes (the Happy Heretic) has posted the long-awaited Part 2 of her rendition of her debate with Patrick the Christian:
http://www.thehappyheretic.com/current.htm
(The above URL should be good through the end of this month.)
Still no mention of me at all… interesting, isn’t it?