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jwirr

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16. How about sinful and unclean? That is a phrase that I grew up with in confession and I have found
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 11:11 PM
Dec 2014

that it pretty well defines us at some time in our lives and apparently the world we live in.

Children of Manifest Destiny! nt adirondacker Dec 2014 #1
I wonder how closely the concept of Manifest Destiny is tied LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #9
I often think that religion is invented by the ruling class to herd the flock. adirondacker Dec 2014 #15
"Religion was invented when hifiguy Dec 2014 #21
Not invented by but defiantly used by. zeemike Dec 2014 #23
Something new under the sun is happening nowdays. hifiguy Dec 2014 #2
+1000 JEB Dec 2014 #4
Sadly, I must agree. LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #5
One would think that watching The Hunger Games some may get a clue, but apparently iPhones are a adirondacker Dec 2014 #13
But the people will not rise up WHEN CRABS ROAR Dec 2014 #14
Pretty much sums it up... mountain grammy Dec 2014 #19
+1 eom Odin2005 Dec 2014 #24
America is so past tense WillTwain Dec 2014 #3
Maybe America never was. LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #7
It was, as someone once said of Christianity, hifiguy Dec 2014 #8
In Greed We Trust™ GeorgeGist Dec 2014 #6
The Parable of the Tribes The2ndWheel Dec 2014 #10
Freedom, phooey. If you can't sell it at Walmart, we don't want it. Unlike drunken apes, more like jtuck004 Dec 2014 #11
Humans are lazy, myself included. LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #17
"History supplies little more than a list of people who have helped themselves to the property of Tierra_y_Libertad Dec 2014 #12
And those are the people we hold up as examples and LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #18
How about sinful and unclean? That is a phrase that I grew up with in confession and I have found jwirr Dec 2014 #16
I don't know about "sinful." LuvNewcastle Dec 2014 #20
I get what you are saying. I think the phrase just means that we have a tendency for doing bad jwirr Dec 2014 #22
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