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KJ5IRQ returning. This is one of those questions that I don't like to answer because it's longer than three minutes. Much longer than three minutes. I agree that religion is a generic term to cover all different sorts of belief systems. There are lots of belief systems out there. Christianity is one of them. I'm going to use that one as my demonstration, I guess, since everybody is so familiar with that. Within Christianity, there are many different types of Christianity. For example, I was raised Southern Baptist. I was raised up in a Southern Baptist church. Raised up as a deacon. I was raised to become an elder. I was, within six months of being brought up as an elder, we had an elder-led church. We were involved in it for many years. But I'll tell you what happens. Humans are fallible. That church had some issues. My wife and I and the family left before it exploded. Thank goodness. Figuratively, not literally. That's bad, bad stuff. What it bore down to is that humans are hypocrites. That's just what we are in general. I hate to say it like that, but we are all hypocrites. We all portray one side of our face to everybody that have a hidden secret face that try to keep hidden from everybody. That's where Christianity comes into me. So, Southern Baptist is a derivative of Calvinism. Calvinism is an offshoot of Catholicism. Catholicism was put together by a group of men, one in which was a criminal at his time, the Apostle Paul. And it was formed to give hope. And it does give hope. The message of Jesus Christ is very hopeful. I don't say I believe in Christ. I don't say I disbelieve in Christ. It's hard to take a Bible, a book that most Christian religions sees as a sacred symbol. In fact, even some like Calvinism and Southern Baptist take the book literally, very literally. And then there's other Christian religions that say the Bible is just a God book. It's just to help you decide what your world beliefs are. So you see in Christianity, you don't know what you believe. I'm going to take a break. Hang on.