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Hekate

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7. No. It used to be Mainline Protestant, that is, Methodist, Episcopalian, etc. w the occasional Jew

Reply to cbabe (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 28, 2022, 03:51 PM

Jan 2022

And funny I should have to say it, but not many Roman Catholics, either. Control by the Pope, y’know. This weird thing where there are so many at once and we’ve had to start speculating how many are Opus Dei is really recent, and really weird.

It used to be the High Court was exclusively white and male, almost exclusively Protestant, and occasionally Jewish or Catholic.

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