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brewens

(13,646 posts) Sat Apr 27, 2024, 08:58 AM Apr 27

If someone were to ask you to join some organization and told you a little bit about their history

which included massacres, torture and all manner of persecution, you'd call the cops wouldn't you?

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If someone were to ask you to join some organization and told you a little bit about their history (Original Post) brewens Apr 27 OP

And yet they recruit for the military in strip malls... JT45242 Apr 27 #1

JT45242

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1. And yet they recruit for the military in strip malls...

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Sat Apr 27, 2024, 09:03 AM

Apr 27

You can twist this a lot of ways. Fanaticism leads to many atrocities.

But, more often than not, religion and politics have been used by the rich and powerful to get the poor to do their bidding and accumulate more wealth and power by any means necessary.

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