>I don't disagree with your assessment, but I was only saying he was much more civil in his statements than say, Michael Moore is in his.
I can't comment about that, since I never heard him speak. I did read that he made a bunch of controversial statements.
On the other hand, of course, you would expect a higher standard from a religious leader than from a movie director. Whether he did fulfill this standard, I don't really know.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)
