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April 1, 2015 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 1, 2015, Wednesday, Hour #1
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Welcome to today's edition of the Rush 24-7 podcast.
Yes, and greetings to you, music lovers, thrill seekers, conversationalists all across the fruited plane.
Here we are, folks, back at it on Hump Day in the middle of the busy broadcast week behind a golden EIB microphone at the distinguished and prestigious Limboy Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies.
Telephone number if you want to be on the program 800-282-2882 and the email address El Rushbo at EIBnet.com.
Before we get into all the substance of the program today, I need to start out with a correction.
In the past couple of days, discussing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act and the ensuing controversy, which is mind-blowing.
You know what the latest in that is?
Coach K, Mike Shaszewski, a coach of Duke basketball team, refused to comment on it.
And the NCAA has demanded to pull out of their Final Four, whatever's going on.
I guess it's in Indiana.
I'm sorry for not knowing.
I just don't, I don't follow basketball, college basketball.
So if I appear ignorant, it's because I am, and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Anyway, I happen to be watching my monitors today as part of the show prep routine.
And I never have the sound on because it's just irritating to me.
So I look up there and I look at CNN and there's a picture of Coach K.
And there's a feverish discussion going on with a has-been punter for the Minnesota Vikings, Chris Cluey.
And Chluey is a big supporter of gay marriage.
I said, hmm, this must be about Indiana.
So I turned the sound on.
You know what they were doing?
They were giving Coach K the business for not commenting on it.
Coach K said he wasn't going to comment on this and they were giving him the business for not saying anything.
I just printed it out right.
Here's the story.
CNN's Carol Costello attacked Duke head basketball coach Mike Shyszewski for refusing to weigh in on the new allegations of religious freedom denial, whatever it is in Indiana.
Shyszzewski didn't come down one way or the other.
He simply refused to address it.
But see, this is the new statism because he didn't fall in line with other sports figures condemning the law.
CNN does a whole segment attacking him for not saying anything.
So this is the double way that they pressure you.
If you say the unacceptable thing, then they destroy you.
If you don't say what they want you to say, because you saying it would add ammo to their point of view.
And of course, Coach K, one of the most highly respected basketball coaches ever, the anti-Indiana forces would love to have Coach K on their side.
He didn't come down on any side.
And so he has to be taken out for that reason alone.
So the intimidation in stories like this and the veiled defamation, by the way, cuts both ways.
If you don't say what they want you to say, and to them you matter, they're going to come after you.
If you say what they don't want to hear, they'll come after you for that, too.
And of course, I saw this written about at thewritescoop.com.
I make a great point here for crying out loud.
Duke's on the verge of going all the way to the NC2A championship.
That's what Khaszzewski's thinking about.
They play this weekend.
And this is the last thing probably on his mind.
And he certainly doesn't.
You know, what head coaches do in any sport is take the heat off the players.
They try to take as much media attention off the players and onto themselves as they can for obvious reasons to depressurize the players to keep them focused in a number of things.
And Shyzzevsky knew if he weighed in on this, didn't matter how, didn't matter what.
That would be the only story about Duke and being in the championship in the tournament.
What Shyszewski said would supersede everything, and he simply didn't want Duke or his team or his players or himself anywhere in the middle of this story, one way or the other.
But you see, that doesn't work that way because Carol Costello representing the forces of doom here, the Stalinist-type forces of doom, demanding that Coach K speak up and demanding that he say what they want him to say.
They're going after him practically the same as if he had spoken up in favor of the law.
But he didn't.
He didn't say a word about it and, in fact, said he didn't want to address it.
Okay, so in discussing this whole thing, the last couple, three days, we've talked about businesses in Denver and in New Mexico that were targeted by activists to provide product services for gay weddings.
And I made a mistake in claiming that a bakery in Denver was put out of business because of this.
Apparently, it's not the case.
My brother, who is easily reachable where I am not, my brother received an email yesterday from Jack Phillips, who owns Masterpiece Cake Shop.
And here's the email.
I just want to read it to you.
He says, my sister tells me that you are the brother of Rush.
I'm terribly sorry.
He didn't say that.
I just threw that in there.
My sister tells me that you are the brother of Rush.
I've been trying to alert Rush that he's reporting erroneous news regarding my bakery's closing.
We have been open continuously since 1993.
I know that this may not be your line of work.
This is to my brother now.
But if you could contact Rush and straighten this out, I would greatly appreciate it, though I can't repay you in any way.
It's going to all be verified by checking the shop's website, and it gives the link here, using the phone number or email on the website and contacting me personally.
If you can't do it, that's okay, but I want you to...
So my brother sent me the note, and I said, well, I'll fix it.
I'm happy to know the guy didn't lose his bake shop.
And I started wondering, where did I get confused on this?
Because I know the photography business got shut down in New Mexico.
And I thought that the bakery did too, but it didn't.
So that's excellent.
Now, there's more news on the Indiana story today involving Arkansas.
Arkansas was, despite what's going on in Indiana, prepared to do their version of the same law.
And then their governor went on TV saying, no, no.
We are going to tweak ours in light of what's happening in Indiana.
And we will have a little bit different flavor to our law.
So that's the latest.
And the media, they were ready to pounce on Arkansas.
They were just, they were lining up.
They were lining up the guns and the ammo to go after Arkansas if Arkansas decided to mirror whatever they think the Indiana law is on the Iranian nuke negotiation.
In case nobody's noticed, and nobody in the media has, Obama just backed off another red line.
Obama drew a bright red line in the sand, daring the Iranians not to cross it.
And they did.
Obama had previously said that negotiations with Iran would not continue without a framework agreement by the end of business yesterday.
He did say it, you know that.
He did, right.
Well, guess what?
The negotiations are continuing.
And it's April 1st.
It's no longer March 31st.
It's far worse.
And this is not an April Fool's joke.
So Obama draws a red line, tells the Iranians what's what, what is.
We're going to get this framework done by March 31st or else.
And of course, we're still talking.
So this is much like the red line Obama drew for Bashur al-Assad in Syria.
Nobody is intimidated.
Nobody is the slightest.
People are more afraid of Tim Cook than they are of Obama.
At least our adversaries are.
The Republicans are scared to death of Obama, but the Iranians are obviously not.
And Bashur al-Assad is obviously not.
And Bibi Netanyahu is apparently not.
But a lot of people in the United States are.
Now, of course, Iran wants to string these negotiations out as long as possible.
Why not?
For all intents and purposes, the economic sanctions have been lifted.
And that's what Iran wanted.
They're not being enforced during the negotiations.
Did you know that?
During the negotiations, the economic sanctions are not being enforced.
Negotiations continue beyond Obama's red line date of March 31st.
Meanwhile, Iran, Iran, for those of you in Riolinda, is free to do whatever they want in Iraq and Yemen and elsewhere in the Middle East.
And since we don't or can't oppose them, because that might make them break off negotiations, they are free to continue to behave however they want.
They know they hold the cards in this negotiation.
You know what else they know?
They know that Obama is not devoted to the principle that they will not get nuclear weapons.
Obama doesn't care that they get nuclear weapons.
It's just a matter of time.
There's no reason for the Iranians to act defensive.
There's no reason for the Iranians to act like they are not in total control of circumstances, even for PR purposes.
That would be actually a big mistake if Iran made the decision for worldwide PR media consumption to act subservient.
That'd be an absolute disaster for them.
No way to save face with their terrorist client states if they did that.
So they're huffing and puffing, and they're continuing to be the guys that hold all the cards and have all the leverage, and we're reacting to it accordingly.
And because they're negotiating, see, it's so much is predicated on that, because they're negotiating, Iran's getting back all of those billions of dollars worth of frozen assets from the U.S.
So what's not the like about endless negotiation?
The way the Iranians are looking at this, they're winning everything in the world by continuing to talk and not come to an agreement.
There's no penalty for not making the deadline.
There's no penalty for not coming to an agreement.
There's no penalty whatsoever.
There's nothing but upside for the Iranians.
So that's the latest on that.
And there, of course, are some details.
Last night, ladies and gentlemen, I went to New York for the 21st annual Night to Remember cigar dinner.
That is basically the brainchild.
It's a giant party thrown by Marvin Shankin of Cigar Ficionado and Wine Spectator magazine.
I have attended all but one.
I was unable to attend a couple years ago because of sick.
I forgot about some kind of fever, and I didn't think it wise to fly.
Now, the thing kicks off at 7 with the cocktails and cigars.
And it's at the Four Seasons restaurant on 52nd Street, the old Secrets building downstairs.
And I never go to the cocktail bash because it's, I mean, it's jammed with people in it.
1, 1,500 people show up.
It's a charitable dinner, and the beneficiary is prostate cancer, Michael Milken and the Prostate Cancer Foundation.
And this dinner has raised, just with one night a year, over $22,000, $23 million for prostate cancer, just with the ticket sales to get in.
And there's always an auction, and great items are auctioned off.
It's a black tie night.
It really, really, it's great fun.
It's one of the most enjoyable nights of the year for me.
Last night's special guest was Rupert Murdoch of News Corp.
Michael Milken had him as his guest.
And John Zen Rudy was at our table.
Giuliani always is, along with Marvin, his wife, Hazel.
John Sally, former NBA great for the Detroit Pistons, is one of the most naturally funny people that you would ever run into.
And he's been a regular for the last number of years.
It was just a great time.
And I almost didn't make it.
I wasn't able to get out of here until about 4.30 yesterday.
So I never go to this thing at 7 o'clock to cocktail because I can't hear.
And there are 1,000 people with all that talk.
There's just no way I could carry out a conversation.
So I always time my arrival and try to get there at 7.45, 8 o'clock.
And as soon as I arrive, I just, you know, I slither right through all those people at cocktail party and just head on into the pool room, which is the portion of the restaurant where the bash is held.
And last, normally what I do, I change clothes on the airplane about 30 minutes out.
I start changing clothes.
But it was turbulent.
I have not remembered turbulence like this in years.
It was turbulent.
It doesn't scare me.
But it would not have been possible to get out of the chair, start getting dressed and so forth.
So I had to wait till we landed.
And because of the turbulence and traffic, it was 34 degrees and snowing when we landed.
It was not sticking, but it was just raw.
It looked like the holidays, except nobody was happy.
So anyway, I didn't get out of that.
I mean, I didn't get in a car on the way to the party until 7.20.
And I barely got there and I walked in.
I was about 10 after 8, and everybody was just getting seated.
So I got there just in the nick of time.
And it's one of these things I wish everybody could attend was because it's just fun.
And it's people from all walks of life and from all different political persuasions.
Politics never comes up other than maybe a conversation here or there at dinner.
But it's just a bunch of people telling funny stories and having a good time.
I ended up getting back about, I got into bed at 2.30, which is about normal for me.
But it was, and I was the high bidder on a couple of auction items that I'm excited about.
So just a fun night.
Now, we got lots to do on the program today, as always.
So you sit tight.
Our first obscene profit time out of the hour has arrived.
We'll be back right after it.
So don't go away.
You know, this may be the source of my confusion on the bakery business.
This is a story from October 2nd of last year.
It is a Christianpost.com, and the headline, Christian couple, forced to close bakery due to gay activism, may face over $150,000 in damages.
Oregon couple Aaron and Melissa Klein were forced to close their bakery after declining to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian marriage ceremony and are now facing the threat of having to pay $150,000 in damages.
Seated next to his wife at a panel on marriage at the Values Voter Summit on Friday, and that's always in Washington every fall.
Aaron Klein talked about their faith and what Melissa's bakery meant to her before they had to shut down their business.
The boycotting, the harassment.
I mean, quite frankly, they didn't just harass us.
They harassed the other wedding vendors that we did business with, Aaron told the audience.
It cut off our referral system.
We had to shut the shop down.
We were facing in excess of $150,000 in damages for this, just for simply standing by my First Amendment rights.
I can't say it more forcefully.
What it comes down to was that my wife has a God-given talent to create a work of art, celebrate a union between two people, and we didn't want to make it for this gay wedding.
And so we ended up, we had to shut down our bakery.
I knew there was a bakery that had been shut down.
I just got it wrong.
It was not the bakery in Colorado.
It was one in the state of Oregon.
What else do we have here?
Daily Caller.
Not that this is going to matter to them, but get this.
Scientists say new study is a deathblow to global warming hysteria.
New study out of Germany casts further doubt on the so-called global warming consensus by suggesting the atmosphere may be less sensitive to increases in carbon dioxide emissions than most scientists think.
A study by scientists at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Meteorology found that man-made aerosols had a much smaller cooling effect on the atmosphere during the 20th century than was previously thought.
Now, why is this big news?
Well, it means that increases in carbon dioxide emissions likely cause less warming than most of the climate models suggest.
Climate scientists Pat Michaels and Chip Kneppenberger, the Cato Institute, say that going forward, we should expect less warming from future greenhouse gas emissions than climate models are, projecting, adding that this study could be a deathblow to global warming hysteria.
No, it won't be because it's not about the science.
And just like the Indiana law is not about same-sex marriage.
All of these things are manufactured and contrived.
Global warming has no scientific facts promoting it.
Lo and behold, my friends, here's another one.
Another bakery had to shut down, and this is from Indianapolis.
All the way back in February, February 15th, USA Today, a bakery that drew protests for refusing to prepare a cake for a gay couple has closed its doors.
CC, ladies and gentlemen, I knew that bakeries had been shut down because of this.
I just erred in talking about the bakery in Denver.
That one's still open, and they weathered the storm.
This one in Indianapolis, the 111 bakery, the 111 cakery, actually, was its name.
And it says it was still profitable, said the co-owner, Randy McGath, but McGath's 45-year-old wife, Trish, did most of the baking and wanted more time to spend with a couple's four grandchildren.
The business was wearing her out, her husband said.
She'd been taking a break from working since New Year's Eve when the bakery went out of business.
In March, the McGraths, McGaths, I'm sorry, faced a firestorm of protest after declining a request to bake a cake for a commitment ceremony for two men.
Same-sex marriage has been illegal in Indiana since October the 7th.
What?
The hell, you say.
You mean to tell me that gay people could get married in this bigoted, racist state?
How is that possible?
With everything you're hearing about Indiana, can you believe this hysteria?
Can you believe this?
All these businesses claiming they're going to get out, all of these conventions that were scheduled to take place in Indiana, the sponsors demanding and claiming they're going to get out as fast as they.
Can you believe this?
A 100% manufactured hysteria.
You would think, if you pay attention to the drive-by media, you would think that the state of Indiana has more bigotry, racism, sexism than your average Middle Eastern Sharia law country.
If you paid attention to the American media, you would think Indiana was one of the worst spots on earth you could go and you could live.
So many bigots, so many racists, so many homophobes.
And yet we find that gay marriage has been legal in Indiana since last October.
A TV station in Indianapolis broadcasts the story of the bakery rejecting the request to bake a cake for a commitment ceremony for two men.
The next day, Facebook and Twitter blew up with outrage.
By the way, that's all manufactured, too.
Take it from one who knows.
Take it from one who is a target of some of this stuff.
We have done research, folks.
We have found out that it's 10 to 11 people who have found a way using advanced algorithms to make themselves appear to be thousands upon thousands of people.
There is on Twitter this thing called Stop Rush, and it's people attacking me and this program much the way Indiana is being attacked today.
And whatever conservative institution was attacked yesterday.
And what this group does is they go after local advertisers on local EIB affiliates, and they try to intimidate local businesses, like this cake shop is an example.
I don't know if they're one, but just little mom-and-pop businesses.
And they just overwhelm them with complaint tweets, threatening tweets, a bunch of emails.
It's 10 people.
We researched it.
We know who the people are.
We know where they live.
Virtually 85% of all the so-called outrage emails and tweets are generated by 10 people.
Made to look as though they are thousands and thousands of thousands.
It's all fake.
It's all phony.
It's all part of a left-wing, massive smear operation.
It's defamation.
It's smear.
It's everything you can imagine.
But it's made to look legit.
And it does look legit until you get into it.
And it just scares the hell out of people.
And that's so that's is this bakery shutting down because Twitter hummed with outrage.
And we are led to believe we're supposed to think that when something like this happens, okay, a gay couple walk into a bake shop in Indianapolis, they want it, they want a cake.
The bake shop says, sorry, no, we don't believe in gay marriage, we're not going to bake your cake.
Ask yourself, how then do thousands upon thousands of people find out about that within hours?
How does that happen?
How all of a sudden does this bake shop start getting all of these tweets and all of these emails, all of them threatening, by the way.
Some of them are scary threatening.
But how?
How does anybody know?
Does this gay couple that's rejected at the bakery?
What do they do?
Do they go out, tell somebody, it then blows up?
How does it happen?
It's all strategized.
It's all organized.
It all has, as its objective, being turned down.
They target places that they think this is going to happen, and then they've got their response ready to go to make it look like the whole nation is out.
You know what else we found in our investigation?
Let's just take a state, doesn't matter which one, take Illinois.
Let's say that there's a mom-and-pop operation that wants to advertise on our station in Illinois, the Chicago WLS.
And that local sponsors commercial has heard, and the next thing that proprietor knows, he's got thousands and thousands of tweets threatening him, telling him defamatory things about me, lies and things totally made up about things I've supposedly said on the radio.
And the guy gets scared.
We found out that not only are only 10 people behind this, but in the vast, I mean vast majority of cases, 90% of the tweets are coming from out of state.
They're not even from people within the listening area of WLS in the example I gave you.
They're not even people in Chicago because that's not where these 10 people are.
They're in Southern California.
They're in New England, a bunch of places there in the upper Midwest.
There's an active college professor that's one of these 10 people.
The point is that this has become a stratagem that has been conceived by people at Media Matters for America.
And it's all contrived.
It's all made possible by exploiting vulnerabilities that exist in Twitter.
And as a result, Twitter has become a cesspool.
Twitter has become a sewer for this kind of stuff.
But these people at the bake shop, let's go back to them, the McGaths.
Okay, so they refuse a cake, refuse to make a cake.
And the next thing they know, Twitter has erupted.
And they've got threats coming in.
And it's made to look like they're all from the neighborhood.
It looks like these threats and these tweets are all from people in Indiana and in Indianapolis and in the suburbs when they're not.
They're from out of state.
10 people.
I don't know in this case if it's 10, I know in my case it is.
We've researched it.
We spent a lot of time finding out about this.
And it's just to see this all happen is mind-boggling to me.
And to look at how effective it is, because it literally, if you're a mom-and-pop business and you think thousands of potential customers are sending, and the message, they're all, by the way, worded almost identically, almost like form letters.
There's some differences in them, but they're all threatening.
Some to a greater degree than others.
But the bottom line is that if you're a local mom-and-pop business and you do something in the process of running your business one day, and the next day you've got thousands of supposedly angry people breathing down your neck because you're a racist, sexist, bigot, homophobe or you're supporting racist, sexist, bigot, whatever.
You get scared.
These people shut down the bakery.
In Oregon, same thing happened and it cost them $150,000 in addition to losing the bakery.
And this is all bought and paid for in one way or another by George Soros and the Democrat Party.
Now, the thing about this is, none of what I've told you is news to people who have investigated this.
It's striking that even though all of this is known, and we've taken our research and documented research and we've shown it to people, and it's still, for some reason, showing them the truth.
It's kind of global warming.
You show people the truth about the lies and the totally made-up science of global warming, and they still have trouble rejecting it because they're still getting all those threats on their computer from Twitter and from Facebook or wherever else it's coming from.
And no business owner wants to get that kind of stuff routinely thrown at him.
And this is these people of the Republican Party, they're also victimized this way.
And it's just stunning to me that people have not come up with a way to fight back and deal with this.
But the takeaway, the thing you need to know, the thing you need to understand is that it's a safe bet in virtue, in practically every one of these cases, Twitter doesn't erupt.
It's not thousands upon thousands, tens of thousands, some cases millions of people.
It's a very few, it's a handful making themselves look like a mob.
And it seems to me that there would be, at least at the Republican Party level, some way of being able to deal with this since you know exactly what it is and you know when it's coming.
You know what you say and how you say it.
You know what kind of reaction it's going to cause in the left.
And to continually act shocked and surprised by it is a big curious item to me.
And I know there's a term called astroturfing.
There's a made famous by David Axelrod, who practically invented this whole concept, online astroturfing.
The Obama campaign and the radical left have been using this for years to not only mislead the public, but to intimidate people.
My point is, they are not gigantic in numbers.
They are not a majority of people raising.
It's not a majority of people ticked off at the state of Indiana, folks.
It's not the whole country outraged over what's happening in Indiana.
It's made to look like that.
And the media, of course, is part of the game.
So they go right along with this.
They know this whole thing is ginned up.
You can tell them the truth about it.
Just like the story on global warming that I just had here.
Scientists say new study is a deathblow to global warming.
No, it's not because it isn't about global warming.
The global warming proponents are not going to be stopped by science that disproves their claims because it isn't about the science in the first place.
There isn't any science.
Everything that you think is true about global warming has only been established to exist in a computer model.
There isn't one shred of data anywhere that can conclusively predict what the climate is going to be next year, much less in the next 50.
The only way that they can do that is computer models.
And those are only as good as the input data.
There is no scientific data.
All there is is a so-called consensus of scientists.
97% of scientists agree.
Well, science is not a consensus.
But here's the point.
You can respond to all of this with fact after fact after fact after fact that destroys claim after claim after claim after claim.
And it's not going to stop because the agenda is not about global warming.
Global warming is the vehicle.
Just like Obamacare was not really about health care.
It's about something much larger and much more inscivious, as is all of the left-wing agenda.
And because they still remain a minority, a true minority, a numerical minority, because they are not the majority of people in this country and they are not the majority of thinking.
But they have captivated certain elements of pop culture media and these tricks they play on Twitter and elsewhere to make themselves look like they are so numerous and so large that you and everybody like you ends up thinking you've lost your country and there's only 10 or 20 of you left and there's no way to beat them back.
It's a total psychological ploy.
They are not a majority.
They're nowhere near a numerical majority.
And this is the only way that they can hope to have any success with their agenda is to impugn the opposition, intimidate and defame, frighten and paralyze the opposition.
That is exactly what they're engaged in.
And that's how they seek to win, because they can't win in the arena of ideas.
They are nowhere near enough people to win.
Another favorite trick in all of this.
Why are you so upset just because of who people love?
You've seen that phrase bandied about in this, that it's, you know, it's discriminatory to care about who people love.
And love is a great thing.
Why are you objecting to it?
Well, I can tell you right now, I could tell somebody, I could mention I love somebody and it wouldn't be accepted.
And I would be called a bigot and any other number of bad names.
All I would have to do is say, I love Jesus Christ.
That not permitted.
That makes you a bigot, whatever else.
Because that's what the left is scared to death of.
All of this, every bit of this, is about the left's visceral fear of religion.
So the next time you get caught up in this argument and they accuse you of being a bigot or a discriminator because it's just what's wrong with what does it matter who loves who?
Well, yeah, you know, I love Jesus Christ.
And that's like, oh, my, showing Dracula the cross.
That, you're not, that doesn't count.
You are not permitted.
That says bad things about you.
So it's not about that either.
That's just, that's another one of these arguments that's designed to make you shut up.
And to agree with the notion that, yeah, I'm a bigot if I have a problem with who people love.
Tell them you love Jesus next time.
See what they do.
Here's Cheryl in Newport Beach, California.
Great to have you on the EIB network.
Hello.
Hey, Rush.
Speaking of Jesus, happy Easter to you.
Thank you very much.
I appreciate that.
I just wanted to bring up a point that I think everybody seems to be missing when they're screaming about cakes.
This law has nothing to do with discriminating against anybody.
All it provides for, whether you're gay, a person of faith, or anybody else, that you have standing in court to prove your case, whether you're the plaintiff or the defendant in the matter.
Has nothing to do with somebody, you know, you've got to go to court.
It gives people due process on whatever side of the equation you're on.
And I think everybody completely forgets that, that's screaming about wedding cakes.
Yeah, that's true, but this argument.
See, they don't accept that.
Because they say that your refusal to serve a cake, bake a cake for a gay couple getting married, that's discrimination.
To you, you are simply behaving according to your religious beliefs, and you do not want to violate them, and you do not want to behave immorally.
But you don't have that right.
They call that...
Anyway, fealty, devotion, loyalty, whatever.
Devotion to your religion in this context equals discrimination.
Ergo, religion is bad, and it's for closed-minded bigots and fruitcakes.
That's what they want people to believe.
I think people have to understand what this is.
And only then can you properly object to it, fight back against it.
And this is being driven by anti-Christianity.
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