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Several of my friends had blue tattoos on their forearms from a certain unpleasantness in Europe about sixty years ago. Another friend of mine is Hmong, and is in this country under our asylum policy. Relatives of friends of mine have died in Israel, Lebanon and Ireland. A co-worker was killed in the minor unpleasantness in the former Yugoslavia, which was based on differences in religion.
If you're going to limit persecution to the "Western world" it still is pretty easy to find. Ireland is in the Western world.
I don't see how mentioning that religion has caused more deaths than almost everything else combined is a "cheap shot"... when it is well supported by the historical data. The Holocaust was primarily based on one's religion... the killings in the former Yugoslavia, in Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, Iraq, Iran, and many other places are primarily due to religious differences.
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Telstar 28
New England
You know what the first rule of sailing is? ...Love. You can learn all the math in the 'verse, but you take
a boat to the sea you don't love, she'll shake you off just as sure as the turning of the worlds. Love keeps
her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
—Cpt. Mal Reynolds, Serenity (edited)
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