With the very large number of comments on my recent column (and none of them favorable I might add…), I feel it is necessary for me to clarify an underlying premise on which it was based.Beware, as I said in my comment below the column, this idea is distinctly conservative: If the establishment of the tradition was understandable at the time, AND the tradition causes no harm now, then the tradition should not be gotten rid of.

Hopefully knowing that I was operating under that idea will clear up some confusion…

Dan

Here’s the column: http://media.www.dailyillini.com/media/storage/paper736/news/2008/04/11/OpinionColumns/In.God.Do.We.Really.Trust-3318799.shtml

And the comments: http://www.dailyillini.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticleComments&ustory_id=9da5a6a7-8272-4412-9909-33878e0c6d3c

Note: I will post future comments in the comments section, too.