Quote #75

Religious exhortation and telling people, telling children, that if they don't do the right thing, they'll go to terrifying punishments or unbelievable rewards, that's making a living out of lying to children. That's what the priesthood do. And if all they did was lie to the children, it would be bad enough. But they rape them and torture them and then hope we'll call it 'abuse'. [6]

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  7. What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
  8. Of course it's about oil, stupid. [10]

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