sllewgh t1_j0zfdb3 wrote
Reply to comment by pypfm in Brooklyn pastor who was robbed while preaching charged with wire fraud and lying to FBI in unrelated case by Octavus
Nonsense, you've just never met a good one. I'm a community organizer and I know a few members of the clergy who are down in the trenches with me practicing what Jesus really preached.
MaximumZer0 t1_j0zpdet wrote
It's just the 99% of crooked lawyers giving the rest of them a bad name, right?
sllewgh t1_j0zskt8 wrote
Lawyers?
MaximumZer0 t1_j0zxqth wrote
draw parallels between
idiom
: to indicate ways in which two distinct things are similar
The essay draws parallels between the lives of the two presidents.
In this situation, lawyer can be subbed out for any similarly maligned profession, like judge or cop, and in particular "priest" in this instance, since that's the subject of the conversation.
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