Reply #40: Of course. But whatever it takes, I will accept it

[question everything]

Two years ago some said that when Kerry volunteered to go to Vietnam - or, at least, did not try to get out of it - that a political career was on his mind and he knew that this would be a good resume building. This may be true of Clark, I don't know enough of him.

Well, I suspect that human nature is to do things where there is a reward. This is one benefit I do give organized religion (my spouse sees none) - that it got people to care for the poor and the sick, widows and orphans because this is what they believe god expects of them.

And, I suspect, even those of us that see our caring for others coming from our conscientious thinking, that at some point, early in life, we got it from our parents who got it from theirs who got it from their religions.