After we air the audio presentation, we should calm down a bit on the anti- religion and focus on the much harder part of promoting science and reason.

BTW: I don’t know if you caught this but the attorney let it slip during the “write your own bible challenge” that he thought the world is 6000 years old. He said “Yeah we’ve been waiting 6000 years for you,” sarcastically! I don’t know how it is possible to be that well educated but be so wrong about the age of the earth. Talk about compartmentalization. I think he was spying for a conservative think tank or a very conservative church. I have noticed the founders of ID and discovery institute folks are lawyers. Lee Strobel is a lawyer, too. I think they think perceived truth is truth from dealing with courts… They know how to argue from any perspective. (I don’t want to paint all lawyers as bad, go Eddie T) Maybe it is the mix of being very conservative and law? I know this is anecdotal…

I have to agree the two most ill-behaved members of the audience
a) both showed up late,
b) broke the “rules” of the meeting (due to their tardiness) and
c) gave the impression that they were more interested in “saying something” than engaging in a conversation that would lead to any kind of understanding.

Overall everyone was very well behaved and should be commended. I thought the young men in the front asked some excellent questions.

What I am more concerned about is our kids who are in the public school system. I’m a little concerned that they will be treated differently or impacted in some negative way.

I’d prefer that they just be left alone and allowed to be freakin’ kids. I’m going to see about having my last name removed from the online version at least.

What I have been overly conscious of is arguing with the Islamic community. I’ve forayed into the land of Muhammad infrequently, but everytime I do I’m met with extreme resistance and accusations of hate and bigotry.

I think I have a decent grasp of Islam and a basic familiarity with Hadith (it is reminiscent of the Catechism of the Catholic church in its insane restrictions and the ridiculous amount of stupid, boring things to learn and do dogmatically), and I’m already thick-skinned and know much of what I say will be interpreted as hate-speech and the like. I was just surprised in the dramatic difference in arguing with Christians as opposed to Muslims. That is not meant as a compliment towards Christians either. I feel like I am talking with a Scientologist who is accusing me personally of every fault and atrocity associated with Western civilization when I speak with Muslims (and not converts either) who, most of which (especially the underprivileged women) do not fully grasp, let alone appreciate, the concept of individual liberties or pretend not to in reverence and fear of their almighty Allah.

My eyes bugged out when I saw Jeremy’s name.

I wish I could be there tomorrow. Here’s to not having a bunch of crazies coming to protest. (raises a metaphorical glass)