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The hysteria over Obama's former pastor's attacks on America shows we're still in thrall to knee-jerk patriotism.
  • madamfauntlroy

    If they are preached time and again that women are property, which was an acceptable concept right through the late 20th century, yes. They could beat up their wives and children because after all, they were property.

    I've been going to church for nearly 40 years, right up to and through the 20th century and I've never heard this...But i'm sure you have the stats to link Christianity and brutal assaults on American Women and Children...