[sloop]

because i readily admit i am a sob

you, however, are the same though in denial - and hiding behind your self righteous, pious, selective scripture quotes

that makes us both a sob - with the advantage going to me - because i have the self awareness

you give conservatism a bad name

[Finny]

Your self-awareness is self-serving, I'll give you that, but then again, that's the whole point of being self-aware! And show me someone, ANYONE, who isn't an sob at times, and I'll show you an illusion. You think you're proving that you're not in denial ... LOLOL!!! {^) I love you for it. Cyber hug.

I think "pious" is, for example, when you berate someone for being a "slut" because you've never engaged yourself in slutty behavior, or when you berate someone for not behaving in a Christian way because YOU always have. It's kinda hard to be pious or self-righteous when at the back of your mind, at all times, you remember: THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD GO I. I don't think I'm a "better" Christian than anybody else, but I suspect that there are some who have not yet been as blessed as me -- not yet.

By the way, dearest sloop, one doesn't have to be selective AT ALL in order to find scripture in the New Testament that shows how Rush screwed the pooch the minute he called Fluke a whore and a slut. RUSH himself had to have known, and that he DID know is evident in his RIGHT apology. Rush is a Godly guy, and he was right, brave, and strong to apologize.

It's depressing and disgusting on the one hand to see the self-righteous lust of so many people here for the words "slut" and "whore" -- it's even comical, bringing to mind a character in the Chris Farley movie "Tommy Boy." On the other hand, seeing that I've got good company of some FReepers who find it as repugnant as I do, is fortifying.

Godspeed Newt Gingrich.