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usaf-vet

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5. Let's pray he right!

Reply to LakeArenal (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 9, 2020, 01:35 PM

Jan 2020

I have long felt that religion in the world as I have known it for my 73 years has been responsible for more hatred and deaths in the world than any other factor.

Please don't counter with wars. Because IMHO wars are brought upon us by religious fervor. One group hating another.

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