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"textContent": "MYTH: if you think hard, bad things will happen to you. FACT: your soul goes marching on. The meme in this Noah Smith’s piece says it all: it’s congregationalism all the way down. John Brown looked into the moral abyss around him. The abyss looked back. It made him a little crazy. Rampant, pervasive dehumanization of adults and […]",
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