Ripken the Bat Dog. Ripken was taught how to retrieve bats starting at ten weeks old. His first debut for a team was for the Holly Springs Salamanders in 2019, where Ripken was kept as he could retrieve the bat without leaving saliva or bite marks. Ripken was later noticed by the Durham Bulls, who recruited him in 2020, and Wolfpack football, who recruited him in 2021. While working, Ripken had a GoPro camera attached to his back, which captured his retrieval from a first-person view. These videos helped Ripken to become popular on social media, which led to him featuring on The Kelly Clarkson Show in 2022, and dropping the ceremonial first puck for a Carolina Hurricanes game in 2023.
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teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
