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      <![CDATA[Was he trying to make any sort of valid point? Or did he just want some kind of excuse to pretend to jerk off in front of a room full of kids?
        
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      <![CDATA[This may be the sickest thing I've ever seen. Ugh. Even worse with the sound.<br />
        
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      <![CDATA[Religion, and religious leaders demand that their flocks blindly follow, trust, and never question them.  Basically,  they desensitize and groom their followers to accept abuses imposed upon them by the church and clergy.
        
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      <![CDATA[@24  FTW
        
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      <![CDATA[@23 -- oh, is <i>that</i> what he's doing?  His roommates must not have gotten much sleep...
        
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      <![CDATA[I attended an all boys religious boarding high school in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the 1960s.  None of this surprises me.  It was indeed an unforgettable and sexually confusing experience.  I was supposed to become a Christian minister.  Instead I've become a very happy atheist.  But for clarification of what Rev. Schaap is doing?  He is trying to demonstrate the (res)erection of the body.  Its all about secret sacraments.
        
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      <![CDATA[I made it through one minute of that and then I felt super icky and creeped out and had to stop.
        
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      <![CDATA[Is that a giant size lava lamp behind them?
        
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      <![CDATA[He'll do just fine in prison.
        
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      <![CDATA[Damn - turns out I've been praying before bed all these years!
        
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      <![CDATA[And to think Churches can go up REAL CLOSE to schools and no one protests, except me and I just looking like a jerk.  So I never did it again.
        
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      <![CDATA[Ewwww.
        
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      <![CDATA[Okay, that last line is too much.  Most churches and church organizations do nothing to harm children.  A church is more likely by far to feed and educate a child than to harm him or her.<br />
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But yes, serve this hypocrite up one big fat prison sentence.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[let it go. for your own sake.]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Danny is still angry that no one called CPS on his mom.....
        
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      <![CDATA[I always wonder why child abusers can't resist crossing state lines to commit their crimes. Stupid, stupid criminals.
        
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      <![CDATA[I've known since I was a child that religion was a front for sexual abuse and crazy people. ever since I was abused by the guy who was supposed to be giving me bible lessons.
        
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      <![CDATA[The guy on the far left seems way, way into what the preacher is doing...
        
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      <![CDATA[Isn't there something in the Bible about the anti-christ masquerading like a wolf in sheep's clothing?
        
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      <![CDATA[I could only watch the first one minute of that and i want my one minute back.
        
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      <![CDATA[o_O  I need a shower... ALONE!
        
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      <![CDATA[The way the men are shifting in their chairs behind him seems to indicate some shameful stirrings in their loins.
        
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      <![CDATA[And of course any of the girls impregnated by those preachers would be expected to carry it to term and raise the progeny as their own. Cause otherwise it's a sin.<br />
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Selfish genes, indeed.
        
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      <![CDATA[<br />
Terrible.<br />
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      <![CDATA[What in the shit did i just watch?
        
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