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Seriously Dangerous Religion

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2.25.2019

Q and A

As always Iain shines in this important and extended question and answer session. As one participant observed to me about Iain’s ability to answer questions – ‘He has the gift of understanding what the questioner was really trying to say and what lay behind the question – even if the asker could not articulate it well themselves.

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