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AtheistCrusader

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39. Tell that to people who've been hit by lightning or experienced other traumatic brian injury.

Reply to Gin (Reply #3)

Wed Jan 24, 2018, 12:07 PM

Jan 2018

Frankly, it's a vicious lie, that actually hurts real people who have suffered a brain injury, and the lie is told entirely in the service of pretending the supernatural is real.

Please stop that.

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Aw, I am so flattered. trotsky Jan 2018 #20

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