[S.T.D.]

Doesn't a thousand years seem terribly long for a Protestant Reformation? I mean c'mon guys, make up your minds - either you're different or your're the same. If you're different then stop trying to kill each other and if you're the same, go to your rooms until you learn to behave more responsibly to each other.

Honestly, all this eggshell walking and analysis of our analysis of the discussion of someone's critique of our analysis about it. Do I need to know all there is to know of Shinto, Buddism, or the Tao, Zoroasterianism, Ba'hai or the people of the purple comet in order to deal with them. If they go to war with me because I didn't arch my left eyebrow the right way while genuflecting to the east then what's the difference?

Trust me, I can have meaningful discussions with the most serious Lubavitch rabbi or rebbetsin who think I'm probably close to apikorsim (heathen bastard) anyway and they don't lunge over the table and punch me in the face. I can put the most militant Southern Baptist in the same room as a Catholic and the odds are we won't have to declare the contruction of a DMZ and call in some international observers.

But somehow......Walk down the street of your local Sunnitown and mutter something about that 11th Century Shiite mullah who 'probably got it right' and we're picking up nerve gas corpses from the side of the road.