I am still trying to figure out just why just why ministers are typically portrayed, on television shows, as being milquetoast.
Usually, stereotypes are based upon that which is typical--or, at the very least, frequent.
But it has not been my experience, at all, that it is typical (or even frequent) for ministers to be milquetoast.
At one end of the spectrum, there are the fundamentalists. (No, I am not one.) And these typically are fiery--and therefore, far from milquetoast.
But even those rather far removed from this end of the spectrum do not impress me as being milquetoast.
What do others think?