Such us-vs.-them religious oneupmanship is more about political partisanship than liturgical debate. Its adherents practice what can only be called spiritual McCarthyism, a witch hunt in which “secularists” are targeted as if they were subversives and those who ostentatiously wrap themselves in God are patriots.
I so totally want to marry Frank Rich and have, like, 10,000 of his babies.
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