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Leith

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10. Outside the Sermon on the Mount, there is no morality in the bible

Reply to Kablooie (Original post)

Tue Sep 10, 2019, 03:33 PM

Sep 2019

Starting with the "gotcha" the deity pulled on Adam & Eve, continuing into genocide, incest, slavery, pedophilia, and all sorts of practices that would land the miscreants in prison in today's world.

They're not going to cram their authoritarian religion down my throat or anybody else's while I'm around.

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Trump's attorney general wants god's moral order enforced by government [View all] Kablooie Sep 2019 OP

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