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Thread on someone's struggles with leaving the Catholic Church. Someone tells her to read Dawkins' The God Delusion. I point out the major problems with Dawkins. (As far as I'm concerned he's the atheist answer to fundamentalist Christians.) Her reply? This isn't the place for it, let's go on some other (larger) board. Which is basically a way of saying "I want to have a huge endless drag-out fight about this".

And she tried claiming that Dawkins never said religion was the root of all evil. Um, maybe not in that book, but he spent 2 hours on Channel 4 trying to prove it was.

Shortly after I got here, I had my grandmother put me on her insurance just in case (since I was driving her car).

Well, GEICO just called me and thanks to being on her policy, my premium just went down by $289! (six month premium). That's nearly half the cost down. Woot! I'm paying $700 a year with comprehensive and collision which is unbelievable.

(And they did put Neil on--I listed him as a non-driver when I did the quote but I guess they did a DMV search on him. Still, the primary insured is me and I'm in the safest insurance category. Woman, 30-50, 5 year good driver bonus.)

Of course, our insurance will skyrocket after 1) Neil gets a job (current premium is based on not driving to work) and 2) we move into NYC (our theft premium will skyrocket: the Honda Accord is the second-most-stolen car in New York state and NYC has much higher theft rates than Suffolk).