THEOLOGICAL METAPHOR INVOLVING SHEEP AND SCANDAL… BUT IT’S NOT WHAT YOU THINK!:

…If we think of the actions of another as the sheep population of Scotland — and, really, how can we not? — then, for the vast majority of others, the one side of that one sheep corresponds to their actions visible to us. What they do that we don’t see is as unknown to us as the rest of the Scottish sheep are to the American family.

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