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Atheists & Agnostics

RussBLib

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12. Kinda like when Christian fanatics bomb a mosque or kill an abortion provider....

Reply to Rob H. (Reply #8)

Wed Jan 7, 2015, 06:08 PM

Jan 2015

...they are derided as not being "true Christians."

But whether they are "true" or "fake" Christians or Muslims, they have still done the abhorrent deed, and they would not have done the deed had not a religion implanted the idea in their deluded minds.

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