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whatthehey

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31. Come now, religion, as always, has nothing to do with this

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Reply #30)

Mon Aug 17, 2015, 09:25 AM

Aug 2015

These are just poor people trying to shake off the shackles of western colonialism, marginalization and poverty, without the benefit of Berkeley style liberalism to help them. Religion's immaterial. "God" in that video title is what one guy calls his cat that's all. Imagine thinking religion has anything to do with perpetuating bronze age social orthopraxy... tsk, tsk.

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Come now, religion, as always, has nothing to do with this whatthehey Aug 2015 #31

Disgusting! nt Live and Learn Aug 2015 #26