LOL. That's almost clever. Very good. “A” for effort.
But as to your analogy, calling Mr. Romney a “senior cleric” of the Mormon tradition isn't like calling a former President of the United States a “senior statesmen,” but rather more like calling the former president of the local homeowners’ association a “senior statesmen,” at least by your non-standard definition. I suppose, though, that there will be folks prone to exaggeration and hyperbole who would go there, too.
Of course, the other obvious logical problem with your formulation is that the better parallelism from "[current] cleric" to "[former but now] senior cleric" would not be "[current] president" to "[former but now] senior statesman," but rather to "[former but now] senior president," which doesn't quite work.
In any event, for folks who belong to highly-structured hierarchical ecclesial communities, “senior cleric” means someone who is a.) currently a cleric; and b.) of a status in the hierarchy at least a little higher up than the first rung or two of the hierarchical ladder. Especially a community with as many rungs as the LDS.
“That you would even care...”
Did you think that was it? That I care what you think? Not quite. I just like reminding myself that I've been delightfully unemployed for over two decades. I hope it lasts. I pray God that it does. I'd hate to get a real job at this point in my life.
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But as to your analogy, calling Mr. Romney a “senior cleric” of the Mormon tradition isn't like calling a former President of the United States a “senior statesmen,” but rather more like calling the former president of the local homeowners’ association a “senior statesmen,” at least by your non-standard definition. I suppose, though, that there will be folks prone to exaggeration and hyperbole who would go there, too.Yes, and that would be your bizarro-world interpretation of my simple and true-on-its-face claim in the form of a descriptive epithet--i.e. "senior cleric," similar to senior pastor, or senior coach, or senior fry-cook, because on your world do all these weird associations attach to the simple term "senior"--and you're welcome to whatever delusions you care to entertain as an alibi for your loneliness and despair. Go back to your porn-sites and leave those of us who enjoy thoughtful discourse alone because you're not up to it.