protecting that individual's identity--I select a gendered pronoun at random

to hop onto the rhetorical bandwagon

My idiosyncratic sampling of the local hyperpartisan leftosphere...

Jessica Pieklo and here
http://twitter.com/hegemommy/

Jeff Fecke
http://twitter.com/jkfecke/

Robin Marty
http://twitter.com/robinmarty/

Jeff Rosenberg
http://twitter.com/jeffrosenberg/

for public employees, in the present context

your cunning linguist ironically blends meanings 2a and 2b.

put another way, Christians traditionally have loved Jesus in part because He relieved them of the guilt they would otherwise bear. In contemplating their debt to Christ, Christians have traditionally pondered their utter abjection in His hypothetical absence--so to speak.

and I'm a Mass-attending Catholic atheist, as I think y'all are aware