Reply #2: Man the pumps!

[PurityOfEssence]

Jetsam is the stuff you throw overboard to keep from sinking.

Flotsam is...

Look: trying to paint the guy as god's gift to the poor wayward degenerates is a little weak at this point.

To say that he made a mistake and is mishandling it would caulk the seams a bit more, but to try to sell us pie-in-the-sky after pie-in-the-face risks ridicule. Certainly, I'm around with some serious ridicule, but this is another weak and flailing parry and it makes many of us just feel REALLY squirmy-uncomfortable.

I'm sorry your guy did this, and I'm sure it must be ripping many of you apart. He's a decent guy, but nothing short of shit-canning Donnie Dorko will do, and I just don't see him doing that: it defeats the whole purpose of playing the religion card with the Great Big, Ol' Time Snake Oil Revue.

Thrashing in quicksand.

Religion: handle with care.