LOL< thanks all for reading and thinking about it. I'm kinda surprised though that at least two of you took it right to the big belief kahuna so to speak. Hmmm. I don't want to disabuse anyone of their religiosity specifically as I do to provoke an examination of an area of our psyche where perhaps we underestimate the extent of our volition. But since, both of you aver with the customary quavering solemnity your unshakable belief in the big one, let me use it for the potent example it offers.

Instead of using your declaration of faith as a reason not to suspend your belief in it for a moment of reflection, what if you instead said that "because" of your unshakable faith you "can" suspend your belief in it for a moment. Aterall, it is unshakable...isn't it? Is it that it could be harmed by something you might see?

Is that kind of faith exacted from you, or do you enforce it upon yourself? What holds that in place? Can you ask those questions without suspending belief? Can you live without asking those questions?