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In reply to the discussion: Happy Sunday! I won't be in church today. [View all]Populist_Prole
(5,364 posts)89. I've always hated that trite line too
i see it used so much by religoius sorts, so glib and without demur.
If something good happened to them or they got lucky or avoided catastrophe, then god hooked them up.
If the opposite happened, then "he works in mysterious ways".
What a load of crap!
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Mar 2015
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Mar 2015
#32
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Mar 2015
#48
I'm glad you escaped both the shackles of your marriage and the shackles of religion.
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Mar 2015
#60
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Mar 2015
#69
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Mar 2015
#116