PDQ,

I am terribly sorry, but this is kneejerk bullshit. It is predicated on the notion that an individual equals his church equals its pastor equals some demagog his pastor likes. None of which is in the least bit true.

A man does not equal his church. Nor should his church have any bearing on the merit of his ideas or his performance in a public arena; at least, in this country. If it does so, it is because of people who engage int his kind of sloppy linkage between things, saying that things should be associated in fear and fog when they should not be at all, given the least effort and mental clarity.

A church does not equal its pastor. People just do not work that way. Painting these pictures of "automatic association" in order to make generalized, sweeping assertions of danger, evil, treachery, or other lurking threats is just panicmongering foolishness, and beneath you.


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