My daughter just brought up another excellent point about belligerents. She reminds me that the apostle Paul was a belligerent as well and that Jesus did not put his hand upon his shoulder in a Christian brotherly embrace, he blinded him on the road to Damascus because he knew "that's what it would take to get his (Paul's) stubborn head out of his ass and to unravel that neverending Roman ego of self importance so he could be of some use and not continue life as a human pretzel due to some unfortunate yoga accident that left him with body parts in wrong places. Or whatever."

My young one does not pull any punches and she is on fire tonight. "