Marty, you are to my knowledge a smart, rational, capable individual who should be able to govern themselves even if others may not be.

You do not need my guidance

You (and I ) and others simply need to extend one another more grace.

In political and religious conversation, the messenger is not the one to shoot.

I expect you and Tony could have a great discussion about your theological differences if you focused on discussing them instead of how awful or stupid or your favourite word the other person is for believing what they do

You know yourself that the first rule in any debate is that if you feel the need to attack the person debating then you have already lost

Have a beef with someone? Have a straight up conversation. If you need to apologize, do so.

If writing ever becomes work I think I'm going to have to stop