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ItsjustMe

(11,252 posts) Sun Sep 18, 2022, 07:36 PM Sep 2022

Anyone Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities

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Anyone Who Can Make You Believe Absurdities Can Make You Commit Atrocities (Original Post) ItsjustMe Sep 2022 OP

That Voltaire quote applies to religions too Farmer-Rick Sep 2022 #1

Farmer-Rick

(10,216 posts)

1. That Voltaire quote applies to religions too

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Sun Sep 18, 2022, 07:50 PM

Sep 2022

What's more absurd then a fetus born to a virgin woman? What's more absurd then a talking snake and a magical apple? What's more absurd then a super sky daddy controlling everything?

So, priest and preachers get people to believe these absurd things and next thing you know these same people are voting to destroy their democracy for a disgustingly gross, smelly criminal who wants to be king of America.

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