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over the past eight years was the complete and utter lie that, golly, it\u2019s just impossible to even know what torture is!<\/a> So when prisoners die from beating, suffocation and cold cells, or innocent men get renditioned to Syria for 10 months of tender ministrations by the Syrian \u201cauthorities\u201d Catholics must make excuses for this and those who object are \u201c pharisees<\/a>\u201c. To these perpetually baffled moral relativists, I dedicate the next 10 hours:<\/p>\n

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