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Atheists & Agnostics

trotsky

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6. It's real enough to its followers.

Reply to Heddi (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 30, 2015, 09:43 AM

Jan 2015

Which should be all it takes.

However, the paragons of tolerance allow themselves to be hypocritical bigots. They can boast about the time they were laughing at the Book of Mormon on a road trip. They can mock and belittle Scientology. That's OK, you see, because reasons and stuff.

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