"You know what you sound like?  You sound like some Islamic terrorist who's got some hostage "apologizing" for the sins of America on tape."

When I read John's "apology" I felt sick to the stomach. I haven't been able to bring myself to read it twice. It feels like standing helplessly by while witnessing intolerable suffering.

My thought was that these were like the "confessions" of a victim of torture.That much is so, so clear and so, so terrible. I am totally stunned that someone like ppwk ( whatever the first "p" stands for ) is so brainwashed by cult thinking that this very terribly ,obvious ( IMO) truth doesn't leap out at them from the screen. Thank god , I am stepping away from being a party to such dishonesty.

Thankyou Jim for daring ( as ever) to say what I was thinking !