I don't know whether you're more pious or pompous, but either way, you're a strikingly good example of what Mencken called "boobus Americanus".

You remind me of the young American soldier at the end of Heller's novel "Catch-22" - the one who has the argument with the old Italian civilian because the guy tells him that American civilization will more than likely not last as long as the frog has been identifable as its own species.

You also make me wish IOZ were still here - he would rip you a new asshole in ways I can't even begin to imagine.