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I tend to identify with the outsider. Poor, gay, fat, Muslim, whatever I imagine myself (or now that I'm a dad, my daughter) in that extremity and rationalize what would I want for justice. So something like waterboarding strikes me as abhorrent because I could picture what it would be like to be tortured. Or if Sidibe were my daughter I think how would I react if I read the passages above. Now I know that is not how most self-professed Christians feel. They believe in submission to immutable laws. That's why I'm an apostate.

Now if DV or II actually worked with the morbidly obese or whatever label Thordaddy prefers then they would have credibility with me. But they don't. Call me a Plantation MD or Negro MD or sell-out, soft, sucker, bleeding heart, politically correct, passive aggressive or whatever you want. But I'm in the ring nearly everyday. I'm actually talking to mothers about their overweight kids and telling them not to by soda and soft drinks or if they absolutely must then make it Diet Dr. Pepper or Sprite Zero or V-8 Fusion Light. I'm telling guys to make and pack their lunch to work the night before rather than order out and to start with 12 minute walks three times a week and build up in 3 minute increments each week to reach a goal of 30 minutes. I literally tell them that they will end up in a nursing home by the age of 40. I don't tell them that they are are disgusting heifers defiling God's temple. That's just not helpful. If you have personal experience showing otherwise I'd like to hear it.