[MarkBsnr]

I do not take or eschew action at your bidding.

Uh, sure. I'll adjust my plans accordingly.

Up to you.

However, I appreciate the link

Thanks for explicitly saying it - I certainly would have missed it otherwise.

We Catholics are notorious for our graciousness.

and would point out that nowhere does this article indicate mob emotion.

Perhaps not 'mob emotion'...but certainly getting closer to your off-the-cuff definition expressed earlier. Since my rather conservative Protestant church engages in nothing even remotely similar, you will forgive me if I am unfamiliar enough with it to properly distinguish the subtle differences.

Some viewing on YouTube of Hitler, Mussolini, Jim Jones, any successful Pentecostal preacher, and so on might give you enough evidence to conclude that the differences are not subtle at all.

[beezdotcom]

Godwin is pleased.

[metmom]

We Catholics are notorious for our graciousness.

Notorious, yes.

Gracious, not so much....