Today, a group called Faith Communities Uniting for Peace organized another public interfaith prayer for peace in the Middle East in Columbus, Ohio. About 200 believers who oppose the Iraq War showed up at 5:30 PM in the Statehouse atrium. It's a wonderful community of people, Jews, Muslims, Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, etc., who strive to live up to the moral and political obligations inspired by their ideas of gods or universes, the ideas that they and their forebears have collectively developed and transformed over time through their communities which are called religions. These are real people doing real work in the real world, with whom you can talk and work. They are more real to me than atheists' unreal individualist definitions of gods and religions. Their anti-war services, which get into the media, are no more supernatural than acts of secular leftists holding signs against the war. -- Yoshie