Kevin, thanks for commenting. You may have hated turning this discussion from secular to religious, as you say, but I wholly support your doing so. I would clap for each statement you made if one could clap for individual paragraphs--with one exception: Racism is apparently NOT a mortal sin in the eyes of the United States. If it were, we'd never have had slavery in this country, Trump would never have held onto any power after it was obvious who he was, and I personally would not have witnessed some of the things I witnessed when I was growing up in the South. Also, this article would not have needed to be written.