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“There are only four types of humans that dwell on the surface of our planet. Those who kneel before money, those who bow down before power, those who prostrate themselves before the ‘divine’, and those, a few misguided and messed up individuals, who care more about the afterlife than the present one.”

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The Gods Are Not Dead

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