Reply #4: Come on. Gently now, must there ALWAYS be a preacher in the ceremony?

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Couldn't he have found a good example from the laity? Surely some actions of note happened in the civil rights movement that weren't done simply because the clergy joined in the fray.

This is getting very annoying. It's cloying and quite disturbing: he's CONSTANTLY wrapping himself up in the cloth with these praise-filled moments for important social movements of the past.

It's one thing to court the religious vote, but it's another to subtly equate all goodness in the world with the action of or practitioners of christianity. This is dangerous conflation and whether it's tactically advantageous for him, it muddies the waters way too much. This is really getting out of hand.

Are we to just sit mildly by and watch the endorsement of religion as virtually indispensable to any goodness in life be chorused night and day like a swarm of blissful cicadas chirping the joy of a superior way of living? Please knock it the fuck off.

This isn't just a passing tendency or additional theme, it's getting to be the point itself, and that's way too messianic for my taste. Can someone please get to this guy and point out that even if this does sew up some momentarily crucial flocks, it's not appropriate.