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Originally Posted by scaeagles
How interesting. I look at the actions taken, but yet you have the ability to look at the hearts of those involved.
For example, you know that Clinton was a genuinely religious man. You know this how? Because he was filmed coming out of church after the Monica story broke?
You also seem to know that Reagan was completely uncomfortable with his Christian professions.
I do not call it hypocrisy for me, as a member of the Christian base you reference, to aspire to living a better life while understanding that I need to improve. Rather than citing that as hypocrisy, I would regard it as an understanding of my limited ability as a human to be good and do good. Is it a bad thing to wish to be better than I am? It is no "convenient understanding". It is a fact that I am not as good a person as I should be.
The more I type, the more insulting I find your whole premise to be.
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Okay. "By all accounts," Clinton was a genuinely religious man, or, at least as genuinely religious as the next fellow. He certainly presented himself as such, which is really all that matters. I also didn't say Reagan was uncomfortable with his religion; I said he was not close to his children or emotionally available to them, a point I don't think anyone disputes. I also do not question the virtues of a humble approach to life, Christian or otherwise, and the recognition of human fallibility. You were the one who called Democratic celebrities hypocrites for their inability to fully walk the walk. You apparently do not disagree that the Republican party is happy to allign itself with celebrities who are drunk, abusive and who produce coarsening entertainments as long as those celebrities come from the world that appeals to the base (country music, action films, NASCAR, pro wrestling). I offered an explanation for why the base embraces these stunts while, out of the other side of its mouth, the base has no problem criticizing "Hollywood," when "Hollywood" is defined as the smug left that admits no self-doubt. If you have a better explanation, please share it.