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procon

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4. Ours or theirs? Both?

Reply to luvMIdog (Reply #2)

Fri Apr 14, 2017, 04:01 PM

Apr 2017

I agree, fundamentalism of any flavor is fraught with evil and perpetrated by greedy con men who prey upon the weak and ignorant. Yet, I am somewhat skeptical that religion, by itself, could have reduced so many Americans into mindless scaredy cats frightened by larger than life, cartoonish villains.

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