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Its_Just_A_Typo t1_iyf8pus wrote

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They're like the Islamic version of the westboro baptists and other southern evangelicals on steroids. Same brand of religious bigotry, just a different book waving in your face.

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Hipster_Bear t1_iyfcn1m wrote

And here I was thinking of Southern Baptists. It's worth looking up what separated them from other Baptist traditions. (Hint: it was slavery.)

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Its_Just_A_Typo t1_iyfcwir wrote

Yeah, the southern evangelicals are the worst of that subgroup; mostly baptist as is that westboro bunch, but there are others they band together with in tribal solidarity and hate.

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