java, that's the kind of religiosity I can get behind. It's so weird. For an atheist, I'm fascinated by religion and always want to talk about it. It's nice to find people I can discuss it with intelligently.
Exactly. I mean, she does have some ideas that make me roll my eyes a little (she thinks dinos are not around because they didn't make it on the Ark - and she thinks they walked the Earth with humans) BUT she says she doesn't really know. She says the Bible doesn't contradict "my" assertion that the creation was over thousands of years (she agreed that's possible - totally agrees that it was NOT 6 twenty-four hour periods, but, rather, periods of measurable time) and that the dinos went the way that scientists agree (probably caught in one of the extreme global climate "ages"), during one of those "days". She's great to talk to, though. Seriously. I said, "there's no way the dinos are walking the Earth with the humans and we don't hear about it in Genesis. No way. They would TOTALLY make top billing." And she cracked up. The best thing about Sharon is her sense of humor.
Now she's watching "The Singing Detective" DVDs. She loved "Waiting for God." I told her if she liked "Singing Detective", she can have the DVDs set because I couldn't get into them.