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trotsky

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1. ‘Those people believe just as strongly as I do. They’re just as convinced as I am.’
Mon Jun 30, 2014, 08:38 AM
Jun 2014

That seems to be a difficult step for many people to make. Even over in the religion group, you have otherwise intelligent believers who insist that there's no way people like Phelps or Robertson or Bush are sincere in their beliefs. Of course they don't even understand that that's exactly what right-wing believers think of them.

Oh and don't you dare bring up the cruelty of survivors thanking god. That'll get you branded an evil anti-theist bigot for sure.

I don't know how you break through such a barrier to thinking. Religion doing its job once again it seems.

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