“I said Romney is a senior cleric, which he is as he served his term.”
Here is what you originally wrote:
“Romney’s proper title is Bishop Romney. He is a senior cleric...”
You hang the appellation of “senior cleric” from his title, “bishop.” If you're now saying that you meant “senior” as in superannuated, that fails.
As was explained, in hierarchical ecclesial communities, “senior cleric” is tied to status in the hierarchy. A parish priest, as an example, would never be called a “senior cleric,” even if he'd been a priest for 50 years, and was 75 years old.
Of course, Mr. Romney, apparently, isn't even quite analogous to the Catholic priest who has been a priest for 50 years and is 75 years old. As he is a former bishop, I suppose he is more roughly analogous to a former priest. I know a few former Catholic priests. Some of them are pretty old - in fact, older than Mitt Romney. The former principal of my high school is a former priest. I guess he must be over 70, now. But even though he's a senior citizen, he isn't a senior cleric, LOL.
Again, you said:
"He is a senior cleric..."[emphasis added]
As far as I know, Mr. Romney isn't a cleric of any sort in the LDS church. I believe that it would be more accurate to say that he is a former cleric of the LDS church.
You go on to say:
“He is a senior cleric in the Mormon tradition as evidenced by his vile hatred of the conservative movement and the candidates who support it.”
This means that Mormon senior clerics have a vile hatred blah blah blah blah. Are you now suggesting that younger, less experienced Mormon clerics do NOT have a vile hatred, so on and etc.? It's only Mormon clerics who have been at it for a very long time who have a vile hatred, yada yada?
That hardly seems like the best reading of what you wrote. What you wrote strongly implies that it is clerics who are senior in authority, which is determined by hierarchical rank, who have a vile hatred, etc. Which of course, has connotations and overtones of dark conspiracies by top people in the Mormon organization. But you're suggesting now that what you meant was more about dark conspiracies in the Mormon retirement homes. LOL. Sure. Whatever floats your boat.
As to my employment status, yes, I'm unemployed. Have been since 1991. That's when I started my current business enterprise. Since I'm the owner, I haven't had a W-2 for a couple of decades, now. So, I figure that makes me unemployed, right? I'm no Warren Buffett or Bill Gates. Or even Mitt Romney. But the company has kept body and soul together for 21 years, as well as the bodies & souls of all my employees over the decades, too.
Be well.
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“Romney’s proper title is Bishop Romney. He is a senior cleric...”Yes, this is what I wrote, that Romney is a senior cleric, as the "he" is a deictic (or anaphor or pronoun) that resolves to "Romney", as in ROMNEY is a senior cleric, just as an ex-president is a SENIOR statesman. See how that works? What I said was literally, on its face,true in the most trivial sense of the word "true," and true on your own terms despite your many wasted keystrokes for no good reason other than to satisfy your wounded vanity at the expense of your diminished dignity.