I totally sympathise Coyote, this is one of the reasons why I barely participate at EVC anymore, it is virtually pointless.
Perhaps you don't get enough kudos then. I consider myself a sort of half-and-half lurker-poster and it is precicely many of your posts that got me off my ass to look into religion with the same skeptical eye that I trained on other things.
I started a thread awhile back about Prophecy in Daniel that I had hoped to attract you to because people like you who have a database of knowledge in their head are absolutly priceless for those of us still figuring things out.
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. --Thomas Jefferson