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\u2026to a ravening mob in a combox.<\/a> About 50% are capable of grasping analogies and reasoned discourse. The other half are thoroughly ginned up hysterics. You\u2019re a better man than I am, Jimmy.<\/p>\n

Old and Busted Conventional Combox Wisdom: The Church is dragging its feet laicizing priests with all this canonical process jazz. It\u2019s just a good ol\u2019 boy scheme for keeping abusers on the payroll and bleeding the laity white! Burn them!<\/p>\n

New Hotness Conventional Combox Wisdom: The Church cares only about expedience and money when it gets abusers out of the priesthood speedily by settling with them at much lower cost to the laity who were being bled white. Burn them!<\/p>\n

The Interwebz: where a cleric weighs as much as a duck and is therefore made of wood and thus proven to be a witch.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"