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GiqueCee

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5. There's that age-old...
Mon Mar 2, 2026, 10:54 AM
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... religious justification for ruthless violence. They pay little, if any, attention to the teachings of the Prophet, or Jesus; they just want an excuse to chop somebody up.
The same kind of people infest this country as well. Virtually all the Founding Fathers were quite specific in their denial of any religious basis for the establishment of the United States, but that doesn't deter the rabid fanatics of the Christian Nationalists, or any of the Muslim or Hebrew factions that believe that their religious beliefs justify violence to achieve their ends, no matter how nefarious they may be. But it's always about power, which is just shorthand for total dominion over the lives of others.
They're all exceedingly tiresome.

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