(June 23, 2011 at 5:04 pm)Shell B Wrote: There is nothing at all wrong with being offended. It gives us a sense of who we are and what we believe is wrong and right. No one is above being offended. It is all in how you handle it.
Even though it was not explicitly stated, that was how I interpreted the point of this thread.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell