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\u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019m reminded at least once a month that the foremost countries on the planet, the happiest and best functioning, are relatively godless socialist states such as those in Scandinavia. \u00a0 Color me skeptical. \u00a0 So you can easily understand why, as a quasi-libertarian and a religious believer, I was already predisposed to enjoy\u00a0this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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