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My objection to the church isn’t that the preachers are cruel, hypocritical, actually wicked, though some of them are that, too .

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As ever admit it; and I do believe that if we busted out and admitted it sometimes, instead of being nice and patient and loyal for sixty years, and then nice and patient and dead for the rest of eternity, why, maybe, possibly, we might make life more fun.
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