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Comments on: This Is Annoying https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/29/this-is-annoying-2/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:47:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/29/this-is-annoying-2/comment-page-1/#comment-28991 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:47:33 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/29/this-is-annoying-2/#comment-28991 Religion is important to these people. The titles are important. Failing to note the relative standing of major players distorts the intelligence.

Al Sadr’s lack of clerical credentials is one of the reasons he doesn’t want to get too involved with Iran, where all of the real power resides with the clerics. It is also the reason that Ahmadinejad has less power than his predecessors as Iranian president.

Anyone may speak at a mosque, but that doesn’t make them a cleric.

Former Senator John Danforth is an ordained Episcopal priest and Bill Moyers is an ordained Baptist minister, but the media doesn’t constantly refer to them as “clerics”.

]]> By: fallenmonk https://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/29/this-is-annoying-2/comment-page-1/#comment-28989 Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:02:16 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/2007/08/29/this-is-annoying-2/#comment-28989 Thanks for pointing this out Bryan. I have been thinking the “cleric” label was valid all this time. I should know better than to believe even the first word of what I hear from these folks without independent confirmation.

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