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This needs to be read to get the full effect. If you lack patience, here's the short version: Man prays for a powerful religious experience. Man receives powerful religious experience. Man sues church over injuries sustained when struck by religious exper
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Once again, we have a Republican winner in the "Do what I say, not what I do" category.
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