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$\"God$ <\/p>\n

From Pearls Before Swine<\/a>. The cartoon gets at the heart of the matter, which isn\u2019t the religious language that people use or views that they hold per se. The real problem is that people use such language and adopt viewpoints without thinking seriously about what it means and what the implications are.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"