My statement does not imply what you say it does. My statement is about religious conservatives and defining a characteristic of such people. It does not defi

My statement does not imply what you say it does. My statement is about religious conservatives and defining a characteristic of such people. It does not define greedy people. My statement isn't even about greed it's about a subset of the people who have the haunting fear that someone, somewhere is getting something they don't deserve. This isn't the same thing as greed. When I say that religious conservatism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere is getting something they don't deserve, I am defining a characteristic of the set of people who are religious conservatives. That set of people may have other characteristics and, here's the important thing, the set of people who have the haunting fear that I described is itself not described. Other people may have this same haunting fear and not be religious conservatives. I have merely posited that the set of religious conservatives is a subset of the set of people with the aforementioned haunting fear. A Venn diagram may be useful. If I had said that one has the haunting fear if and only if they are a religious conservative then you'd be correct in your interpretation. But I did not say this. I did not make any claims about non-relgious conservatives or any other group. Therefore any conclusion on what I believe about these other groups is not logically supported by what I wrote. Again, clearly the statement was merely an attempt at wit and not meant to be taken literally. It's hyperbole.