I've found it is always so much easier to justify otherwise intolerable behavior in myself when I've been convinced it is either morally or socially acceptable to hate someone enough to do so. I've become harder to convince than I was in the past.
And so it goes...
Richard's $.02 
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“Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)… There are just some kind of men who – who’re so busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.” - To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus Finch)
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.” - Robert Heinlein
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