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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by bko on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:01PM (#26623810)
> I will say, however, that Jesus himself did have some explicitly political teachings. Matthew 19:24 comes to mind

Sounds like there's something you got out of religion after all!

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Re:Gallup: U.S. church membership dips below 50% for first time by pmiller2 on Monday March 29, 2021 @12:10PM (#26623962)
No, I have never been religious. I did, however, read the entire Bible in high school for a literature class. Well, okay, except for all those pages of "this dude begat that dude, and so on...." I just mentally substituted "uh, yeah, Methuselah was old and Jesus was descended from King David and all those dudes."

That's not nearly as strange as it sounds, because one really does need to understand the Bible to really grasp the nuances of much of Western literature.

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