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Ben Bernanke's Doctoral thesis! gently caress, page snipe. I have literally nothing, since my whole family doesn't want to debate me on politics. I guess I will say that I've had people remove me as a friend on Facebook over debates. One friend was complaining about liberals "whining" about Bush v. Gore, so I gave a well-reasoned response based on my research in my Polisci class, and she promptly un-friended me. Cognac McCarthy fucked around with this message at 06:17 on Sep 21, 2010 |
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Maybe send this friend something along these lines:Huge Liability posted:When did Israel become a nation of apologizers? A nation of PR specialists? A nation of "Kapos"? At what point in time did we stop being a nation that carried out retaliatory raids in response to any attack coming out of Jordan or the Gaza strip and become a nation that accepts "a marginal number" of rockets to be shot into our southern towns, without even speaking out. When did operations such as 'Spring of Youth' and 'Wrath of G-d' stop being the normal Israeli response to terror? Huge Liability posted:At what point in time did we stop being a nation of "follow me", the "101" and the impossible Entebbe raid and become a nation of legal commissions and hearings. Huge Liability posted:When did it happen that a Jewish synagogue (albeit built without building permits) will be closed and sealed but two mosques built equally without permits are left open for fear of "what will the world say". Huge Liability posted:2,000 years ago a Roman citizen could walk freely anywhere in the known world; safe in the knowledge that no man dare assault him for fear of bringing down the wrath of the mighty empire on himself. Today we are told not to speak in Hebrew when touring in Europe and not to wear any article of clothing which may identify us as Israelis. In the '70s, Carroll O'Connor, as the sitcom character "Archie Bunker", said in one episode of 'all in the family' "… of course no one hassles them Jews (jooz), if they did the entire Israeli air force would bomb the crapola out of them". Archie, my friend, those days are gone… I wonder, when did it happen. This should be obviously false, but just link your friend to an article on banditry and some of the following: Gauls, Goths, Vandals, and maybe some articles about the various sackings of Rome. Further, appealing to the words of a giant racist caricature really just makes you look like an rear end in a top hat.
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Turnquiet posted:I thought about drafting a major response, but my spirit was weakened by the stupidity. His whole argument lends itself to "these economics books from 2.5 centuries ago say he is wrong, ergo, he is wrong! If you have not read the requisite literature then you are incapable of arguing the point!" Take away his thesaurus.
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Sep 21, 2010 16:16
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Chunk posted:I seriously doubt he's read Adam Smith, considering he was a precursor to Marx and was certainly in favor of wealth redistribution.
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Sep 21, 2010 19:54
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TheSpookyDanger posted:Maybe send this friend something along these lines: The Rome part is especially bad, he's pretty much just complaining that Israel can't be a bully without people complaining about it anymore.
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Sep 21, 2010 21:01
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I'd have to reply with something agreeing about how ancient Rome was totally awesome and badass, especially how they fed Christians to the lions! 
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Sep 21, 2010 22:10
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Don't forget the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_%2870%29
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Sep 22, 2010 02:58
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In the spirit of intellectual honesty, it should be said that Rome was a better and nicer sponsor state than most the Israelites had known, and the same can be said for a lot of the Roman world. 
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Sep 22, 2010 03:06
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Geeze that Israel thing is like all those complaints that U.S. troops can't just shoot first and ask questions later anymore.
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Sep 22, 2010 03:38
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Not an email, but stupid poo poo people type nonetheless: These people are making it really difficult for me to hold up with my resolution of not arguing with retards on the internet.
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Sep 22, 2010 04:37
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llibja posted:Not an email, but stupid poo poo people type nonetheless: Find a vile, violent, and/or baby-killing passage in the Bible (there should be plenty to choose from but I don't know where they specifically are) and post that without attribution. After they go on some anti-Muslim rants (if it's entertaining enough maybe post some more!) you can burst their bubble to your (our) great amusement.
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Sep 22, 2010 04:42
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I always have to ask but.... why are you friends with these people?
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Sep 22, 2010 04:58
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I used to work with the guy looking for a good Quran translation, I don't know the people commenting. Anyone have particularly juicy bible verses I can drop on these fools? I know literally nothing of the Bible.
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llibja posted:I used to work with the guy looking for a good Quran translation, I don't know the people commenting. Anyone have particularly juicy bible verses I can drop on these fools? I know literally nothing of the Bible. Here's a few to get you started, in no particular order: quote:Samar'ia shall bear her guilt, because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword, their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open (Hosea 13:16). "But llbja," they might say, "that Old Testament stuff doesn't count anymore (except when it does)! The New Testament is A-OK!" That's when you hit them with some of these: quote:I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man, she must be silent (Timothy 2:12). Remember that most of these are less horrifying in context, but that's also true for many "horrifying" Qu'ran quotes.
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Pththya-lyi posted:Here's a few to get you started, in no particular order: Awesome. I'd suggest replacing references like "the Lord" or "her God" with "Allah", which is technically accurate (it's simply the Arabic word for God, and as such Arabic-speaking Christians use that word too) and less likely to tip them off. You might also pull from a more modern Bible translation to get rid of the familiar, old-timey "Bible feel" of the translation many of those have. BibleGateway.com is a great place to look up verses in different languages... Here are some verses from that "holy" book that have been translated from the original middle-eastern text... posted:The nation of Israel will be ruined, because it fought against Allah. The people of Israel will die in war; their children will be torn to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open. (New Century Version) Edit: Did them all. Obviously, if you use them remove the names of the translations first... Choadmaster fucked around with this message at 09:55 on Sep 22, 2010 |
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Sep 22, 2010 09:15
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A useful website for shameful Bible/Quran/Book of Mormons quotes is the Skeptic's Annotated Bible. (Just be careful, if you use it in an actual debate and not just trolling, to read the context and any links to Christian refutations.)
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Sep 22, 2010 10:18
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Thanks for the material, nobody has bit on it yet. Will post updates if they are funny enough!
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Sep 22, 2010 16:18
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Helicon One posted:I'd have to reply with something agreeing about how ancient Rome was totally awesome and badass, especially how they fed Christians to the lions! There's no actual evidence that Romans fed Christians to Lions  (they usually just burned them and whatnot)
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Sep 22, 2010 19:11
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Ughh most of this poo poo is horribly depressing. Also,  .
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Sep 22, 2010 19:37
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Cjones posted:There's no actual evidence that Romans fed Christians to Lions Then what did their lions eat?
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Burrito posted:Then what did their lions eat? Zoroastrians
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I received another letter today. Any changes made are in brackets: You say you care about children... Words not backed up by actions. Over a million people lived in Baghdad and at least 1/4th were children looking forward to going to university. She says: I didn't know there were universities in Bagdad. Come to learn Iraq did NOT HAVE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION. We need to arrest Bush for lying, war crimes & genocide of Iraqi children. Birth defects from uranium depletion & saran gas. Blowback by Chalmers Johnson. If Nixon can be arrested for Watergate shouldn't the same degree of Justice be applied to Bush? How did we become a nation that would agree with Bush, yes, let's attack children in a foreign country. Let's blow up their homes making them homeless. Let's disrupt their lives with gunfire. If ABC TV does not report on the refugee camps then it never happened. Elizabeth on the View who thinks water boarding Isa O.K. How much does a tank cost? Don't know...don't care. How much does a Boeing jet cost? Don't know...don't care. How much does a Lockheed missile cost? Don't know...don't care! How much does war cost? Don't know...don't care! How much to date has the war cost (over 6 years of war)? Don't know...don't care. We are at war in 3 countries just like Vietnam. The only difference is FCC 7 second delay censoring. Newspapers are owned by TV so free speech is gone. Bush threw acid on the Bill of Rights. We will never return to a democratic society all because Bush lied & said Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. We lost a great deal. Disney ABC TV news is pro Iraq war. Will there be backlash. Will the economy fail & the amusement parks go belly up. They shot themselves in the foot. Cascade affects all of the fortune 500 companies going belly up because they backed the CIA darth Vader Bush instead of fighting for America. They didn't understand the CIA greed & hubris. War answers everything. Mired down in an endless war. Half of your paycheck goes to war and you are mute on the subject. According to you it is ok to bomb a child's home creating a destiny for that child. As long as TV news reports on Hollywood & Mr. Food your world is at peace. You never have to think about consequences because you live in the middle of the usa. [State] safe from foreign threats. What, you treat those children like rats. I see no difference than how the same voters, the same taxpayers treated the Sioux, Cherokee & Apache s. You shoved them onto a a reservations. Tell me what is the difference between a refugee camp & a reservation because in my mind they are one in the same. Linguistics. Was it worth it? Why are we in Iraq? Pakistan? Afghanistan? Are we building underground oil pipes for Cheney & Bush, oil tycoons? Why did the House & Senate give Bush Cia their own private army? What if I told you Blackwater security soldiers are handpicked by the cia, would that get your attention? What if I told you they are highly trained x marines hand selected. Why is that significant? The army has no jurisdiction over Blackwater secuirty. Even their name is skull n bones. Who would charter such an elite squad? Why doesn't Barack Obama discontinue the privatizing of the military? Hitler had their SS and Bush Cia has his Blackwater security detail. The hidden Agenda. How can we call ourselves a democratic nations & have Blackwater security answerable to no one, not even the Generals? It is Barack Obama who is at fault. Regime change. Nothing happened. Same old same old. I am sure if they were HONEST about how much the war cost YOU...YOU WOULD have sticker shock and you would impeach all of those rats on the hill. Freedom to assemble. Next concert you go to after the program grab the mike and scream, "I am as mad as hell AND I ain't taken your poo poo any more. Did you know stamps cost 15 cents? When? Bread cost a quarter. Look around and you will see MONSTER INFLATION. And you just let the revolving door of politics pile on & grow gov't, yet another federal agency? Why don't they shrink gov't. FBI spies on Blogovitch (ill governor) for five years. Do you see the pattern of abuse. Bill of rights, when did we ever have a Bill of Rights? Waco Texas. Ruby Ridge Say something about Uranium Depletion. Persian gulf war syndrome Bush Senior. Saran gas mysterious illness VA hospital will only identify as "mysterious illness". "I don't play with words." Nicole Kidman The Interpreter. Pentagon: removed testing equipment from the VA hospitals & tell the soldier we don't know what is wrong with him. Obviously it is a slow & painful death. [City], have you any idea how many colleges Universities In [City] that are Catholic? 2 How many high schools in [City] that are Catholic. You are looking at a dense Catholic foundation. Here is your abortion question for teh day. War is abortion you moron!!!!!!!!!!!SCREAM!!!!!!!!!!!!! Question: is it ethical to send our troops into harm's way? Yes, war in Iraq is just. I just told you Bush Sr. Persian gulf war syndrome. Are you saying the Pentagon pulled the testing for uranium depletion & saran gas from the VA hospitals. Shut the war down now. Unzip the dna. Yes, by all means have an abortion after all you are carrying a mutant fetus. I was watching DVD Clash of the Titans. Maggie Smith. Snake woman. What does that have to do with Iraq? Unzip the dna. Are you saying there was another civilization before Noach & his ARC? That civilization...pillar of salt. They played with radiation all of those homos Sodom & Gomorra. Unzip the dna. Do you get that. Freak! Do not send US troops into Iraq, Pakistan or Afghanistan cuz of exposure to radiation depletion! Are you saying the Arabs salted the earth like the Romans? I suspect our troops are exposed to saran gas & uranium depletion. Unzip the dna. Mutation. Why are we in Iraq if Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction? The ruling class used the soldiers to distract everyone while Halliburton built an underground oil pipeline. If 2012 is a reality & planet X flips the poles then we need to stockpile oil. But tell me where safe is? No one knows. Perhaps [State]???????? We are cushioned by land mass. The coast takes the brunt of tidal waves & earthquakes. Do we have an underground city in [City][State]??? No doubt!!!!!!!
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crime fighting hog posted:I received another letter today. Any changes made are in brackets: You know, this started off relatively OK, then... something happened. I don't know what exactly, but definitely something.
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Here's another, slow day today: To whom it may concern: I know for a fact that the military can read minds and see into the future. My first evidence of this was in 1988, twenty-three years ago. The way I communicate with the military is with jets, often with vapor trails meaning "yes" to what I'm thinking at that moment. A small plane going over my house means "no"to what I'm thinking at that very moment. Is that expensive? "The planes," as I call them, say that the military has never spent as much money on a civilian or enlisted man ever? What do I do? I write letters to the editor, to over 200 daily newspapers at a time. One of the topics was to improve the technology to dismantle and destroy nuclear weapons. Another was to substantially increase the minimum wage. Ten days after 9/11/01, I had an editorial in the mail, explaining that the military had allowed the attack of the World Trade Center, saying at that time the reign of terrorism on USA soil is over. In spite of this being a Jihad, or a holy war, the terrorists have not succeeded with so much as one suicide bomber in the past nine years, since 9/11/01, on USA soil. As a civilian spokesman for the military, I am personally proud to say there will be no more bombings the magnitude of the World Trade Center in the next four years. In the next four years, only one suicide bomber will succeed in taking lives-25 to 40 of them-with many injured. In 2007, in a letter to the entire United States Senate, I said that my sources in the military say Osama Bin Laden is dead. An Osama Bin Laden lookalike showed up on TV five days later. It was noted that his eyebrows were too long. In closing, I am saying, Don't be afraid of the the stock market plummeting like 9/11/01-the military is able to stop almost all terrorist activities on USA soil. Signed, Magic Man
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Ah hell, why not: On the euducation channel (T.V.), the topic was the imegration and Naturalization, people coming from third world countries,being Droped at New York, and sent to [State]. Just what have us in [State] done to get this over run of this Group ,our gift of misfortune,more crime,in schools transtaaltors Of which the cost comes not from the federal goverment,but from The the federal tax taken from the wage earner,they are givencuts In living expence. We want people that can change to our way of life,sepeak English And their own money not ours, to believe in birth contral. And to serve three years in the Army. And thats the way it is,
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I kind of like the idea of crazy people lobbying for nuclear disarmament and a higher minimum wage. It's a nice change of pace and a little endearing.
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Sep 24, 2010 21:26
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If those were written by a person you know (and don't hate), you should consider contacting a doctor on her behalf because this person is literally insane.
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This one may be my favorite. It's a transcript for a conversation, and next to the text is pen writing of Caller and Announcer to dictate who's saying what. Why can't I hear this on the radio: Announcer: When I say you are on the Air it means you are on the air. Caller: I didn't know, george (noory) has screeners for his callers. A: I AM NOT GEORGE NOORY!!!! I don't use screen callers!!! I am cheap!!! Are you a time traveler? C: No, but my cousin is. A: Can he or she come to the phone? C: No he is off planet A: Really?? Where does he live? C: New mexico there is a vortex in new mexico. A: WHY does that not surprise me! Tell us where he has traveled to. C: Have you read Louis La'Mour's Haunted Mesa? A: So, he just steps into a time vortex in a desert in new mexico? C: Yes, there is a dimensional time portal. A: Oh, when you say dimensions are you saying within this plane of existence there are dimensions? C: Yes A: How fascinating in new mexico??? Please continue. Why haven't you time traveled? C: The blood ionizes after about the third trip. A: Is your cousin dying of a blood disease? C: Indeed that's the reason I am dubious, he has a website, he is an artist, lots of art where he has been, who he met A: Did he return with toys? Technology? C: Yes, he sent it to MIT and it has vanished. A: Does he know what will become of the planet in 2012? C: Do you recall sliders? Sci fi channel.vaguely He has no idea if the future is our future or a parallel future in another dimension. It is really confusing. Time is fluid and what you see on Thursday may not be true on Tuesday. A: How bizarre C: Things happen. Butterfly affect. A: Oh, I've heard of that! Ok give out your website C: Traveltime nm.com Art: Thanks for calling keep in touch you can e mail me at mindspring dot com We are at the break snap to commercial [Name here] was on Sunday march 15, 2009 disclosure about alien invasion. You can not trust the writer>everyone lies>house on fox tv. My guess digital tv will permeate your breain, you have been programmed for years when the time is right they send a signal and the planet reswponds. (only those with digital tv) not true, radio signals and dvd signatures. Think about lal the tv's junked plus china's tv that is a lot of junk tv EPA bad for the enviroment dead tv's and dead computers and microwaves and cell phones. Electromagnetic age. time travel show Hello, you are on the air! My name is sam from Ontario it is in Canada (miffed) we know where Ontario is. C: My neighbor is a time traveler
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Turing sex machine posted:If those were written by a person you know (and don't hate), you should consider contacting a doctor on her behalf because this person is literally insane. I do not know these people. They send me letters regardless.
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crime fighting hog posted:I do not know these people. They send me letters regardless. Why? Where/why are you getting these?
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Saint Sputnik posted:Why? Where/why are you getting these? At work, I get to open all the mail that isn't addressed to anyone specific.
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My aunt loves forwarding this stuff to everyone she knows. Drinking with a Michigan Girl A Mexican, an Arab, and a Michigan girl are in the same bar. When the Mexican finishes his beer, he throws his glass in the air, pulls out his pistol, and shoots the glass to pieces. He says, 'In Mexico , our glasses are so cheap we don't need to drink with the same one twice.' The Arab, obviously impressed by this, drinks non-alcohol beer (cuz he's a muslim!), throws it into the air, pulls out his AK-47, and shoots the glass to pieces. He says, 'In the Arab World, we have so much sand to make glasses that we don't need to drink with the same one twice either.' The Michigan girl, cool as a cucumber, picks up her beer, downs it in one gulp, throws the glass into the air, whips out her 45, and shoots the Mexican and the Arab. Catching her glass, setting it on the bar, and calling for a refill, she says, 'In Michigan , we have so many illegal aliens that we don't have to drink with the same ones twice.' God Bless Michigan ***** And yes, it was typed just like that.
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Highspeeddub posted:Michigan girl murders people. Oldie but a goodie. "Welcome to the Republican party!"
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Highspeeddub posted:My aunt loves forwarding this stuff to everyone she knows.
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Highspeeddub posted:
Reminds me of a saying I heard growing up, "In Texas we shoot cans. Mexicans."
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Michigan has illegals? I thought it was white as the driven snow?
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RagnarokAngel posted:Michigan has illegals? I thought it was white as the driven snow? Detroit area has a bunch of immigrants. Between Dearborn which is one of the largest concentrations of people from the middle east in the country, and Detroit itself which has a decent sized Hispanic population, there are plenty of brown people for morons to be afraid of. Which reminds me of how our redneck bus driver back in high school was trying to get a mob together on 9/11 to go to Dearborn because she heard people there were dancing in the streets. Thankfully I think no one was buying into it.
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mrfreeze posted:Detroit area has a bunch of immigrants. Between Dearborn which is one of the largest concentrations of people from the middle east in the country, and Detroit itself which has a decent sized Hispanic population, there are plenty of brown people for morons to be afraid of. Which reminds me of how our redneck bus driver back in high school was trying to get a mob together on 9/11 to go to Dearborn because she heard people there were dancing in the streets. Thankfully I think no one was buying into it. Ah yes, the Muslims in Dearborn were drinking champagne on 9/11, and stupid Americans believed it. The west side of the lower peninsula of Michigan is called the 'fruit belt' where most of the fruit in the state is produced. There's a large population of migrant workers in that area too.
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Highspeeddub posted:My aunt loves forwarding this stuff to everyone she knows.
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Choadmaster posted:Awesome. I'd suggest replacing references like "the Lord" or "her God" with "Allah", which is technically accurate (it's simply the Arabic word for God, and as such Arabic-speaking Christians use that word too) and less likely to tip them off. Can you post the Bible verses these were changed from?
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