may i ask as a curious noob.. any past nonbelieving hosts of DU religion?

[Phillip McCleod]

2. that was what i was asking.

and i'm just plain glad to hear it.

now that that's out of the way what do you say to a re-introduction session. we all interact almost every day and i don't know the first thing about any of you. i feel like so much pointless sniping goes on that it's impossible to work through anything mostly because we don't really know each other. we can't reveal personal details here, but we can get pretty close.

i'll start..

i'm a nerd. see my posts in the 'computers & internet' topics. i have a couple teenage sons 15 and 17. one lives with me, the other with my ex a couple miles away and it's a pretty good arrangement. i have a job (thank mammon!) at a little computer repair & sales shop in a medium sized city in the west. the pay isn't great but it's full time, so.. we're getting ready to move to a rustic cabin up the canyon where we'll have to heat with wood. thankfully there's a propane tank

i went through a breakup a couple months ago and it's been.. tumultuous. i've lashed out. probably on teh webz more than irl, but still i know it ain't right and i'm sorry to anyone i've offended. this one was different. she was sweet, before things went sour.

look we're all on the same page about our politics or we wouldn't still be here. even me the noob. we can't 'set aside' the issue of religion because the right won't let us. how is it possible for us to see each other as people enough to come together after all? to expand our sense of solidarity to include the too many splinter groups that form the progressive coalition?

just curious. and yeah the last few questions are probably rhetorical.