God judging or not---faith is believing in absence of evidence---I believe being "good" to get to paradise as a reward will leave me where I am.

Similarly with NRA---and resurrection celebrations tomorrow---it's important to reflect on ever-present change and consequences of schisms in the great Abrahamaic religions.

Protestants and Catholics and Jews, Bible and Talmud and Torah, strive toward and teach love while theologians note scripture and doctrine accommodates things that could not have happened.

We speak of Abraham the father and Moses the teacher while distinguished theologians say there's no evidence that either existed. It shouldn't matter because Jesus and other great religious leaders preached universal love.

On those grounds my father, a rescuer of Jews in Russia during the cold war who lived an exemplary life promoting ecumenism, with trees growing in his name in Israel, was accepted into a Catholic community preaching ecumenism.

Yes, Miller, let God judge me, my father and his Catholic arbiters, not a boorish man in Pennsylvania.