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We ignore these loons at our peril, but it's so hard to pay attention. It's actually painful to read this important piece. Hard to think that this is what our work has come to.

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The Freakshow is all about reminding ourselves that it's not normal.

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Paula White got exposed as having an affair with the Amer. evangelical leader Benny Hinn, coming out of an EU hotel. I believe both were married to someone else at the time. As the religious say, 'the soul is willing but the flesh is weak... Keep tithing ....

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"Despite their success, religion in American society is in decline." Would it be dissonant to say, here, "Please God?" I am sick unto the death of religion being dragged around American life like a three-year-old's binky. Fighting over who has the better imaginary friend is bad enough, but public religiosity is just gross.

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The “speaking in tongues” charade has always been a performance. And those people in the audience who “collapse when touched by the ‘holy spirit’” are also in on the act as those running the show siphon the hard earned dollars from those gullible suckers’ pockets

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Jun 4, 2023
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The tax exemption is something that really could motivate a community to resist.

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