Hi from down under - and I do note the odd Aussie presence hereabouts.
Needed to get out of claustrophobic thinking. Jesus actually spelled out freedom in the suffocating context of 1st century Palestine which quickly turned into a religion which has bound more people in superstitious fear than any gulag archipelago.
So, after years of study and Post Grad in Theology I have left Christianity to feed on itself - the sight was becoming too nauseating to watch. Christianity is going nowhere fast which is a pity because it fails to realize what Jesus was actually on about - freedom from social stigmatization. Jesus was an anti racist, a feminist and probably gay. And he got killed because he dared to challenge the status quo.
I say this as a way of introducing myself - of where I've come from - not to promote any philosophy in general.
What I do find interesting is the possibility that life on Mars may well have existed before life on Earth. Now that would really thrown the cat among the religious pigeons.
See you on the boards.