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MosheFeingold

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15. They were ham-fisted and badly written

Reply to hlthe2b (Reply #2)

Mon Jul 25, 2016, 02:45 PM

Jul 2016

But just fiction books, relying on a mix of Jewish and Christian theology (albeit a certain American Protestant strain).

I don't think they pretended to be anything else.

I tried to read one and found it deathly boring, but nothing crooked.

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