[DieHard the Hunter]

> Not a rude word in the lot, nor rude structure of words. With all I read on FR, to have that taken as rude is quite something.

Nevermind the sophistry: it doesn’t cut any ice. Calling the Pope “a man in some kind of helmet or something” is rude. Of course, you knew that already.

[John Leland 1789]

“Nevermind the sophistry: it doesn’t cut any ice. Calling the Pope “a man in some kind of helmet or something” is rude. Of course, you knew that already.”

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I have as much prerogative to speak of the pope as merely a man in an odd hat as anyone on these pages speaking about the head dress of any other religious person on this earth.

All right, I’ll make my point. That man in the religious garb is a sinner with no more credential or standing before a holy God than any other sinner.