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Ohiogal

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2. Many, especially in the older generations,

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2019, 08:47 AM

Mar 2019

Have been taught to accept without question or else you go to hell for eternity.

Spoken as someone raised in the Catholic church as a kid in the 1960s, but a non attendee now.

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