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when you are a sensitive individual, people who lack a similar sensitivity can undermine your self-esteem. I have always been told by religious persons that their faith helps them to be a morally better individual. Obviously this catholic spokesperson spent his time learning something other than tolerance, compassion, and empathy.
I've learned that ignoring bleating goats causes them to wander away to another pasture to graze. This is what should be done to those who aren't in the conversation to have an intellectual discourse because they don't really matter. It is all just inconsequential bleating from a fear-based belief system.