"Pastordan" and "Darksyde" mudwrestle in Purgatory! Leftists wax religious! Disinterested nondenominational non-theistic, neo-agnostics with at least one drug-induced "religious experience" under their belts--which they distrust, yet which never-the-less prevents them from fully agreeing with the "atheists"--scratch their heads at the exchange between atheist and Protestant!
Yet wind up feeling like "Pastor Dan" would be way more fun to hang out with than "Darksyde!" I mean really, this dude goes by the screen name "Darksyde." Think about it ... heavy metalish, idiotic for the intentional (and therefore more revealing) misspelling, the Pink Floyd reference, the hilarious suggestion of evil in the face of the mighty "Pastor Dan"! "Pastor Dan" has a nice, old-school ring to it!
Now I know that "Quietism" has a bad name and all, suggesting that you're ignoring something you should be thinking about, but I seriously doubt if anyone will be woefully deprived for lack of this stuff. It's also true that religious quietism didn't work for John Kerry. But I always admired his position in this regard, even if he was a bit of an aristocratic shirt-sniffer. Here's to the age-old Democratic tradition of not talking about it! Viva Religious Quietism! Or something like that! (In true Quietist Tradition, this diary was posted at 4:15 AM!)