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Act_of_Reparation

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7. No more real to you, perhaps.

Reply to Iggo (Reply #6)

Mon Oct 8, 2018, 03:21 PM

Oct 2018

No one is suggesting you should aspire to be more like post-mortem Mormon Hitler. But saints are revered. Men and women to be admired and emulated.

It is a case of further enshrining bad behavior in an organization that, at it's best point in human history, sided with hundreds of pedophiles over thousands of kids.

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