Reply #6: I say I'd sign you up

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for the front lines in this war in a nanosecond.

Seriously, that was wonderful. And of course, you are completely correct. John Kerry is a very good Catholic (and, it really need not be added, 100 times the Christian * is.)

I don't claim any special insight into this issue. I'm not particularly religious, and don't see the world in religious terms. I do, though, consider myself a scrupulously moral person, and weigh my own actions every day in terms of whether they are right or not.

This is the source of my resentment. I don't need to get on my knees and pray in order to figure out this war is an abomination, or that children should be cared for, or that you shouldn't steal money from old people, and the hypocrisy of the evil "pray-ers" just makes me blind with rage. Not a particularly useful condition, I grant you.

We do have the moral high ground. Absolutely. I like your frame. We need to keep reminding ourselves that morality and religiosity are not the same thing. (How do these people justify their stance on contraception? That is something I will never understand. How do you loathe abortion and still oppose contraception????)

Hope this is coherent - it's way early in the morning for me to be pontificating. ;-0