How does he respond?
It's hard to describe. It's non-verbal, but kinda like a Vulcan mind-meld, or something, where I receive imagery and feelings.
Do you meditate? Or do you create any art? Those are some secular activities that can be similiar.
Oh yes it is. You're a American Catholic I believe? Education and prosperity has radically changed what Catholicism is and what it preaches. Your beliefs are radically different from a Catholic in a pre-enlightenment era. They're even different to those of modern third world Catholics.
Your personal beliefs are effectively harmless post reformation. Your head of state no longer has an army or even official torturers - if we forget the global child abuse carried out by its priests. Happily it's lost its financial and political influence over the secular West but sadly not so in the less educated third world.
You were talking about getting rid of it - not keeping and adjusting it.
So sure, my religion is constantly evolving - but I'm still religious. That's what's not changing.
Now that there is just hateful bigotry with some intolerance.
No, it's raging fucking anger and total intolerance.
Yeah, and you're throwing the baby out with the bathwater because you're prejudiced.
We've just had the third set of religious mass murders in three of our cities in less than three months by real bigots chanting Allah's name. Don't lecture me on bigotry and intollerance of religion.
Oh boo-hoo. We had more people killed in St. Louis over this normal summer weekend -
only two of them were children.
I guess it's only newsworthy when a religious person does it
I kid, I kid.