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I think all but the most fundamentalist people who consider themselves religious do at least some degree of cherry-picking of what their religion tells them to think. Everyone can agree with "love thy neighbour", but I believe most people use their basic sense of human empathy to inform their moral outlook, and use it to trump the more abhorrent elements that are found in their Big Book. (My dad's a pretty liberal "practising" Catholic; I gave it up about the age of 12, when I decided that the stuff I was spouting in Mass was complete bollocks.)
How many Catholics genuinely believe that abortion should not be allowed, even in the case of rape? To hold on to this view, in my mind, strongly suggests a lack of human empathy. Or in other words, I firmly believe that regardless of his stated religious beliefs, JRM is basically a bit of a cunt.