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Religious stampedes.

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Religious stampedes.
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Religious stampedes.
April 30, 2021 at 9:17 am
What is it with religion and trampling people to death? Hey Islam, Jews do it too.

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RE: Religious stampedes.
April 30, 2021 at 12:32 pm
It is a combination of human delusion, fanaticism, and the nonexistence of God that is a deadly mix.
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"
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RE: Religious stampedes.
April 30, 2021 at 12:56 pm
Post-schism Wal-Martites have been know to trample each other as well.

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RE: Religious stampedes.
April 30, 2021 at 1:40 pm
I thought this was the rush to the free bar at Catholic wedding receptions.

Having worked at many of them as a bartender, I think stampede is mighty accurate.
  
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April 30, 2021 at 3:07 pm
(April 30, 2021 at 1:40 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: I thought this was the rush to the free bar at Catholic wedding receptions.

Having worked at many of them as a bartender, I think stampede is mighty accurate.

A great way to avoid your relatives is to make it a cash bar.

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RE: Religious stampedes.
April 30, 2021 at 5:55 pm
Must have been The Who headlining....
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