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Atheists & Agnostics

RussBLib

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16. God must have approved of the vote (edited)

Reply to onager (Reply #12)

Tue May 26, 2015, 07:44 PM

May 2015

...after all, He gave them "glorious sunshine" for the vote and the vote counting.

I couldn't resist.

That, of course, is the same kind of facile argument I cannot stand, as in, "God sent Hurricane Katrina to punish New Orleans for tolerating homosexuality."

I forgot the rainbows!!

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