And to be less charitable, "are you mentally healthy?," even if having the same meaning for all, is a very subjective question, like asking someone "are you crazy?" Thus, such surveys are worthless, no matter how one looks at them, even if they may have conclusions we may like.

Not until it costs something do we learn how much a man really cares about justice. I found this out in church experience. 1 Cor. 6:2.

The Pharisees wanted everyone to see them pay their tithes, Matt. 6:2.

With 13th-Century casuistry like this, little wonder the pope can so readily endorse universal income. Besides, clerical benefices are almost the same thing.

But you have to put your "Thinking Cap" on, as the pope is very subtle with his casuistry. But I've found that the more I read Catholic doctrine, the more I detest that phony church.

Don't forget that Left and Right media agree on one thing: Fear sells. And are Christians supposed to fear anything except God?

Of course an ostensibly free society should not suppress public worship of any kind, idolatrous or otherwise.

The issue came up with the Plymouth Plantation folks too: according to Wm. Bradford, some wanted the day off to get soused, while the rest considered it just another work-day.

Will these COVID rules do what the Puritans were unable to sustain during the 1600s: a ban on Christmas? Now they did that for very different reasons of course, incomprehensible to modern Christians sold on the sentimentalized Victorian version.

This conforms to my expectations of lib-arts college professors published on Wa-Po.

Whereas Americans have been conditioned, with much help from the media, into abolishing guilt and shame (other than for racism). Is that to our advantage, then?

"Gentleman's Club" is one of those classic misleading titles, like "Dept. of Defense."

Leftists say we're a Racist State, certain Rightists say we are a Christian State, while others say we are a Masonic State. All simplistic, hasty generalizations.

I do not expect this to get better next time around, but worse. We are no longer worthy of the label "democracy" (or better, "republic") if votes are not counted fairly, in the main.