Mike, my biggest problem with Rick is that he refuses to accept any viewpoint but his own. He is narrow-minded and belligerent, and all too willing to push for legislation from nothing more than his own RELIGIOUS beliefs. He is willing to invoke the Constitution in one argument, then completely defy it in the next because it doesn't fit his views on how the world SHOULD be.
I don't give a flying crap if Rick never started a thread in his life. He pushes his views into every thread that even touches on religion, and offends more people than not. Whether he starts threads is completely irrelevant. He is irrational, and my statement only addressed the fact that he's even less rational about politics than he is about religion and science. If you think MY language somehow mitigates HIS faults, well, that speaks more to your thought processes than it does to anything else.
As for my comment "Where the fuck have you been?", it was a measure of genuine astonishment that anyone on this board might be unaware of Rick's beyond-fundamentalist rantings.