Your sardonic retort doesn't change the fact that it is people on the Right who most frequently wave their religious beliefs around like some kind of merit badge asserting how special they are, while at the same time displaying precisely the kind of ugliness they disparage in their political opponents.
To put it bluntly, Leftists may be vicious in their commentary, but they are less hypocritical than those who supposedly love Christ, but ignore His lessons of compassion, love for our fellow human beings, and humility.
As for me being "moralistic," hardly. You have entirely missed the fact that I am anything but moralistic, but rather am just a jaded, bewildered soul struggling through life like everyone else, hoping against hope that there really is something better on the other side.
No doubt that post will earn you quite a bit of vitriol, but the proof of its accuracy is all over this thread.
To put it bluntly, Leftists may be vicious in their commentary, but they are less hypocritical than those who supposedly love Christ, but ignore His lessons of compassion, love for our fellow human beings, and humility.
Jesus said" I came not to bring peace, but a sword. As the world hates me so they will hate you".
So I guess W. has to expect what Ivins writes. Bush indeed is a Christian and would not respond as many here have.