That's not what Christians generally believe. Some kinds of fundamentalists take Genesis literally, but most Christians believe that the first 11 chapters of Genesis tell religious truth and not necessarily historical fact.

YES! I've used VEDIT also. The first version I used was for Concurrent CP/M, if I remember correctly, also around 1983 or so. I've been upgrading it from time to time (I'm now using version 6.10 for Windows), and using it in every job I've gone to since then.

It's still blazingly fast, can edit gigabyte sized files, can easily switch to showing me the hex as well as the text, can easily do things like copy a rectangular block of text as well as a section of a stream, can have multiple files open at the same time, has multiple text buffers as well as edit buffers, etc.

I know it has a powerful macro language, but I haven't needed to program macros for many years now. At worst, I've defined a few ad-hoc keystroke macros (when I press the F10 key, find the next occurence of the pattern I'm looking for, go to the begininng of the next line, skip one word, copy the next word except for the last letter to one text register, copy the next 5 characters to a different text register, go to the next blank line and insert the text registers in reverse order. When I press F11, do something else, and so on). It comes with most of the macros I might want to use already predefined: find longest line, remove trailing spaces, search and replace (or drop into visual mode) across multiple files in multiple directories, etc.

It's got a great licensing scheme -- I can either use my personal copy on any computer, or it can stay on one computer and be used by anybody there.

I love this editor!

Not sure what you mean here. Blacks already have the right to marry one another. In fact, it's usually not considered to be a "special" right at all.

And there are several other jobs that I also feel very strongly should NEVER be done by someone who is only doing it for the money. A religious minister, for example.

Or a girlfriend :-)

I'd like to include teaching as something that should only be done by those who are passionate about it, but I can see that there would be practical problems with this. And yet, a good teacher can change a kid's life. I had several great math teachers, and that's how I ended up in this field. I've heard of great English teachers that made a difference to someone who ended up being an author. A great music teacher or art teacher could easily be the deciding factor in someone's further education and eventual career choice.