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polly7

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4. I just can't fathom how anyone who proclaims to believe in God

Reply to newthinking (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 01:57 PM

Sep 2015

has such a huge amount of hate in their hearts. From the tiny religious knowledge I got from Sunday School classes all those years ago, my take on God was that he wanted us all to live in peace and love and cherish one another. Hatred and fear isn't something I ever expected anyone to claim as a right gotten from the Bible - but then radicals of any religion seem to be the most dangerous, hate-filled humans on the planet. We in the west loathe them, for good reason, in other countries - it's so bizarre they're held up on moral pedestals in our own. Absolutely baffling.

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