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Religion

Voltaire2

(14,703 posts)

18. Perverted? Nah. Their religious roots

Reply to DetlefK (Reply #9)

Sun Sep 22, 2019, 09:23 AM

Sep 2019

go right back to Calvin and the Reformation.
Carving their version of Christianity out as an aberration ignores this history and raise the question: a perversion compared to what?

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