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“Have a Blessed Day, Mr. Likko.” I hear that phrase from one category of person.
Liars.
This seems to be the parting signature of someone who has just invested substantial emotional effort into convincing me something is true when it is plain as day that this very proposition is palpably false, and chooses to fall back on a reference to Christian faith as a surrogate for veracity.
Attorney-client privilege forbids me from fleshing out the exact reason why I chose to vent this particular portion of my spleen on this day. Of course, sometimes it’s opposing parties who deploy this signal of prevarication. Just not today in particular.
Samuel Johnson was wrong. It is not patriotism, but instead piety, which serves as the last refuge of a scoundrel.
I feel better now. Thank you.
Amen to that.Report
I see what you did there.Report
Whelp, I know to whom I’m not going to wish a Happy St. Nicholas day.Report
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If you spend any time around public defenders (as I do, being married to one), you will find out that many of their clients do in fact go to church on a regular basis, and have to check with the deity of their choice before taking a plea deal. In the negotiations up to the plea, your average public defender will listen to her client lie with great conviction, right up to the point where they confess.Report
To be clear: I’m not saying that very pious people are necessarily liars. Atheists lie sometimes too. It turns out that piety, religiosity, and belief have nothing whatsoever to do with whether someone is a good person or not.
When someone offers piety as a proxy for morality, however, it really bugs me. And it should bug genuinely faithful people even more than it bugs someone like me.Report