Amos, I can't quite imagine you ever topping this one:

... jerks tend to hide in religions as an excuse for practicing not their religion but their personal drama of assholery.

It's the ultimate synthesis, the purest distillation, of our many, long discussions.

It's a point I think anyone of sense can agree with, and it's as much agreement as I want, from anyone, on the topic. It all flows from that simple point, said clearly. IMO it actually makes the rest of the discussion... unnecessary!

I think we could zip out the word [religion] there and substitute any other personal agenda, and it works just as well.

Asshole qua Asshole. I like it. The AQA theorem.

(Amos Quips Again.)

~Susan