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Act_of_Reparation

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19. Fundamental misunderstanding of the issue.
Wed Mar 28, 2018, 10:28 AM
Mar 2018

Organizations are only as good or as bad as their constituent members? Well, what makes the constituent members good or bad? Are they born that way? Are they socialized? If they are socialized, what role does the organization play in their socialization? With religion so deeply embedded in most societies, you'd have to either propose a determinist model of human behavior or twist yourself into fucking knots trying to exempt religion from the socialization process.

Franklin Graham, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell are nothing without the millions of seemingly well-intentioned people who follow them.

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