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Old 04-29-2007, 10:00 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by twice11 View Post
I'm glad for religion. How dangerous would our lives be without that buffer against violence and mayhem?
It seems to me that more violence is perpetrated in the name of religion than prevented by it. Of course, isolating the cause of people not being violent is is very difficult...
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