So, at the turn of the third millennium, you have chosen to base your principles on a collection of contradictory texts written by various men years after the death of your man Jesus that have been edited and selected out of hundreds of other documents, and bound together into one hotchpotch volume, under the orders of a political primate, Pope Damasus. And, youre still content to condemn the living love I feel here and now, because of that dusty accident of bad editing? Why?
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