No society is immune from the darkest impulses of man. And too often religion has been used to tap into those darker impulses as opposed to the light of God. (Barack Obama)

No society is immune from the darkest impulses of man. And too often religion has been used to tap into those darker impulses as opposed to the light of God.

Barack Obama

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