agree <\/em>with that and wrote a whole book on it). I get even more bored with hearing Catholics saying things that ain\u2019t so (\u201cYou must believe and profess your faith in Our Lady of Medjugorje!\u201d or \u201cNo True Catholic opposes the death penalty!\u201d). So I sometimes wonder how stupefyingly boring it must get for a really sharp mind like Leah\u2019s to have to endure the same cramped round of bad reasoning, bad faith, and anti-social behavior from her compatriots on the atheist community. Does she ever get sick of it and toy with the idea of throwing cautioin to the winds and becoming a nun just to make the A******s for Atheism freak out as I sometime toy with posting a Youtube of some dreadful choir singing the horrible \u201cAnthem\u201d just to make my Rad Trad critics faint and awaken confirmed in their conviction that I am secretly a pro-abortion, Obama loving, Spirit of Vatican II, liturgical dancing, Gaia worshipping flake?<\/p>\nInquiring minds want to know.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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