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DirkGently

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17. He's right, of course, but a little too generous to the "holy teachings."

Wed Jul 9, 2014, 09:37 PM

Jul 2014

Some of the "subjugation" part is actually in those "holy teachings," as we know. Yet religious leaders manage to interpret their way around a lot of the other bad ideas when they see fit. The choice they keep making is to keep misogynistic ideas on the playlist even after things things like, say, slavery and infanticide have been, if only tacitly, recognized as unacceptable.

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