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It’s so easy to deny responsibility when you attribute your cruelty to Him.
Whether it’s the new House Majority Leader or the bloodthirsty clerics of Iran, we let self-identified men of God get away with virtually anything.
We shouldn’t. We should loudly and directly identify them as frauds. That’s what they are. Because the gods they cite — even if they don’t exist — in the alleged Holy Books, preach love and kindness and mercy.
These men of God embody the opposite. If we were to honestly identify them with a biblical figure, that figure would be Satan.
Murderous Clerics
The Iranian clerics, somehow without irony, murder people using thugs they actually call the Morality Police. The most recent incident, which clerics are trying to portray as an accident and a compliant media is letting them, was the death of a teen on a Metro. She was confronted by police for not wearing a hajib, and at that moment coincidentally had an accident, went into a coma and died a few days later.
Anybody with a brain knows she was murdered by the authorities, nearly a year after a similar murder by the authorities killed another teen, and massive demonstrations broke out.
The cowardly clerics won’t take responsibility for the murders they commit. That’s…
