She describes “Somi” (her nickname given to Osama) as a “monster, genius, poet, racist, woman-basher, very passionate, deeply sensitive, and confused” human being. She also speaks about his love of Western Culture –including an obsession with singer, actress, Whitney Houston – and Marijuana.

What has twitter been like for you?

Twitter brings the whole world together, but it’s been awful for me because I can write in English faster than I can think in English. I tell too much I’m afraid.

Can you give us a brief history of your life..for our readers who don’t know who you are?

I am an Egyptian-Sudanese-American novelist and poet. I was born in Omdurman, Sudan and my birth parents were murdered when I was six for speaking out against slavery and genocide in Sudan. I was then let for adoption and ended up with a Black American family in Washington,D.C. in 1979. I was eight and I grew up in America as an out-patient in Psychiatric Care. I credit the love of my Black American parents with saving my life and my sanity. I have become a successful television writer and novelist but most people know me right now because of Osama Bin Laden.

In 1993 after getting my American citizenship, I traveled back to North Africa and became a model and actress. I was young and dumb and became the mistress of Sudan’s Vice President Hasan al Turabi and later Osama Bin laden. Hasan mentored Osama and the son of Hasan, Isam, was Osama’s closest friend. The relationship was against my will but I have not denied doing everything I could to make Osama happy because I feared for my life.

A diplomat of the Sudanese government (Nadeem Gamal Ibrahim Quttub) wrote a book claiming you married Bin Laden, that you had a child with him and that you were happy. Mr. Quttub says  that you’re just pretending to hate Osama because you’re in America.

That’s completely false. His entire book is a lie. I have never loved Osama and I was never his wife.

When you heard the news of Bin Laden’s death how did you feel?

I felt a huge range of things. It’s hard to say to an American audience what I felt…they wouldn’t understand all of it. But I am glad he’s dead and I applaud President Obama for making the world a safer place. There is a misconception that I loved Osama and that’s not true. I never loved Osama. I had to survive and thus I did whatever was necessary to do that. Many have misconstrued my articulation of his complexity as romantic love. It’s more pity and compassion, because I actually knew him as a person long before he was famous.

Do you feel like the U.S. Had the right to go into Pakistan to find Bin Laden?

Humans never have the right to do anything on either side, so I will not take sides. All men are guilty of everything we’re suffering.

What kind of relationship did you and Osama Bin Laden have?

It started very abusive with rape. Then out of fear for my life I did everything to please him; I catered to him. It lasted for six months and it changed constantly. We had a lot of sex, but I also accompanied him and his men on hunting expeditions every Friday at Dahkla and we wrote poetry together. He liked to smoke a lot of weed and ramble for hours about how the world would be once he saved us by forcing the planet to become Muslim.

Did you know about his 3 other wives?

He had four wives in 1996 when I knew him. As far as I knew, they were in Khartoum. The lead wife, Najwa, hated me and tried to be difficult to no avail.

Recently you sent out a pic that showed nudity on twitter..would you say you’re comfortable with your body?

I come from a Nilotic river culture in Sudan. I don’t see nudity as sexual or particularly unconventional. I believe it’s an abomination for a woman’s breasts to be covered. I am a Womanist.

How people first react to you when they found out you were Osama Bin Laden’s mistress?

At first, because they only had my birth name…Naima Bint Harith, they were very professional and serious. I was treated with utmost respect. But after they saw that I was Black, and as many stated, not even Mixed Black…they became hostile and very cruel. Particularly Peter Bergen, a supposed Bin Laden expert, who makes his fortune writing books about Osama. He did a smear campaign against me and was very cruel and punishing. He said that I was jeopardizing the credibility of the books he’d already written. Americans didn’t want a Black woman to be called Egyptian for some reason. That was another issue. Derrick Bell, the famous American legal scholar told me that they didn’t want to put a Black face on Egypt.

In the raid..they found a huge cache of porn..was Osama a porn addict?

He loved sex period, but he was deeply ashamed of it. His men watched the porn probably more than he did. But yes, he watched. He had a thing for Whitney Houston and to a much lesser degree Julia Roberts and Iman. But that movie “The BodyGuard” was a big deal with Osama. He watched it all the time. He obsessed over Whitney Houston and rambled on about kidnapping her one day.

What’s something about Osama Bin Laden that people may not know?

That he rarely ever yelled. He was extremely sensitive and very soft spoken. He cried once when I saw him order someone in Ethiopia to be killed. He was a genius intellectually, he had a huge heart…but our Arab culture…and I can say this because I’m half Arab. Our Arab culture and the Islamic religion creates the breeding ground for this delusional type of warfare and machismo. Osama was a victim of Arab Islam as far as I’m concerned.

How has your life changed since your newfound fame? Better or worse?

My life is simply different. I am not comfortable in public, I fear for my children and we live in hiding. We move a lot. I am trying to continue my literary career with my latest novel, The Sexy Part of the Bible. It’s getting rave reviews and I’m glad that so many Black women love this book.

Do you like hip-hop music? If yes..who’s your favorite artists?

I like the old school hip hop. I grew up on KRS ONE, MC Lyte, Eric B. and Rakim. I guess Lauryn Hill would be my favorite hip hop artist.  But what I hate about Hip Hop culture is the chronic Colorism, the Anti-Black imagery in the videos and magazines. They all want to be White, everything is all about
Mulatto women, they’re all fake and bling bling. I don’t enjoy the Anti-Black images and the hatred for the mother of our race, the Dark skinned black woman. She is the real true Black woman, the Mother of Africa and all humans. It’s a disgrace that she is not celebrated as young, beautiful and hip and hopping because she’s the eternal goddess. Don’t give a fuck what rappers say. They’ve become the new White trash.

What are your future plans? Any movies or documentaries in the works?

The rights to my autobiography, “Diary of a Lost Girl” are up for sale and I hope to see it made into a movie. I want Naomie Harris to play me. If not her, then I really believe the model Naomi Campbell should be given a chance. She’s interested in the part.

Eso Won Books in Los Angeles has banned your new novel “The Sexy Part of the Bible.” Why did they do that?

They haven’t given any answer other than they feel that I hate Black men and mixed race/biracial people—which is totally not true. But from earlier novels I’ve written, they feel that I unfairly attack Black Men and that my refusal to see Mixed people as Black means I hate them. It doesn’t. No one in Africa sees Mixed/Biracial as Blacks. Period. It’s an African thing its not personal. I love anyone who loves me.

Any shout-outs or acknowledgments that you’d like to do?

Yes, a shout out to Johnny Temple, publisher of Akashic Books, for making my latest book “The Sexy Part of the Bible” available in England and Africa. It reveals the horrors of skin bleaching in African cultures and that’s a story that needs to be examined. I also thank him for letting Jesus be Black and leaving the controversial sex scene with Jesus in. Many find the book shocking, but it’s important to challenge the status quo and to make new artistic expressions.

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Their opinions, however wayward, are usually filled with your run of the mill bigoted hypocritical sentiments such as “love the sinner – not the sin,” while assuring us that they aren’t the confused damn fools they make themselves out to be for conveniently leaving out parts of the bible they find irrelevant. Is it not evident that discrimination of any form breeds more discrimination. Sadly, it’s as if the religious right, which constitutes a considerable collective of the Black Church, hasn’t learned some important history lessons relating to bigotry and hypocrisy that have been harshly taught through the ages.

(Queue American’s celebrating their newly fought freedom from the British at the end of the Revolutionary War, while slavery was in full affect in the South in America.)

It’s as if their idea of Christianity, taught to black slaves by ancestral slave masters who wanted to “save their souls” while forbidding them from following the religious practices of their forgotten native homeland – Africa, is the one and only way and it is all they know.

Newer generations of well intentioned followers are still being bamboozled. It’s safe to say that if every active gay black church member had the courage to come out of the closet, the black Church or “Spiritual Body” as a whole, as they like to be called, would be left in a state of complete and utter shock, and the move would effectively silence most of the anti-gay bigotry preached from the pulpit.

We are all made in God’s image, and since God is love why would he condemn His people for wanting to express and share that God given affection with another human being? The notion that he would send anyone to hell for doing so is absolutely ridiculous, which is understandably a terrifying concept for the average Christian in-name-only to comprehend.

“Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only one. Which one seems unnatural now?”

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3. ‘Pastor’ Eddie Long: Pulpit Pimping, Abuse of Power & Muscle Shirts

Three lawsuits have been filed against Atlanta’s slickest pimp, Pastor Eddie Long, of the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church out of Lithonia, Georgia. In the lawsuits, the young men claim that he showered them with gifts in the form of cars, clothes, jewelry, electronics, money, and housing. The accusers allege that the gifts were given in exchange of sexual favors. They were made to feel special due to Long’s celebrity status not only in Atlanta, but throughout the country. Maurice Robinson and Anthony Flagg say Long began having inappropriate relations with them when they were 16, the legal age of consent in Atlanta.

The allegations come on the heels of a separate incident involving one of the young men, Maurice Robinson, 20, who along with another man, Anthony Boyd, 19, broke into Eddie Long’s office and stole personal items, electronics, and jewelry totaling around $1300. The master key was taken from a desk drawer, and returned the next day. The men were caught on surveillance camera entering and leaving Long’s office.

Robinson’s attorney claims that he [Robinson] lashed out after he learned Pastor Long was carrying on relationships with other young men in his congregation whom he called his “Spiritual Sons”. According to the third lawsuit filed in DeKalb County, Long had intimate contact with Jamal Parris, who was 14 years old at the time, and considered him one of his favored “Spiritual Sons.” The suit alleges that Long lavished gifts on a small group of young male parishioners who’d entered into a “covenant” with the pastor. Because the age of consent is 16 in Atlanta, long is not being sued criminally, the suits are civil in nature. He is patently accused of using his spiritual position and biblical scripture to justify the alleged sexual encounters with the young men.

Although Pastor Long’s reputation has taken a major hit amidst the allegations, it may be difficult for his accusers to prove their case in civil court. These types of cases tend to end up, not in court, but in financial settlements whose terms are agreed upon by the affected parties. This is usually due to the publicity surrounding high profile cases of this nature, and the defendant wanting to do everything in his power to rid himself of the scrutiny that surfaces.

It’s safe to assume that at least one of the plaintiffs, Maurice Robinson, will face issues relating directly to his credibility if the case ever goes to trial.

Long’s relationship with Parris, who has no connection to the June office robbery, began in 2004, when Parris turned 17 and began working at New Birth as Long’s personal assistant. He traveled all over the country with the pastor, whom allegedly encouraged all of the young men to call him “Daddy” and to consider him their “Spiritual Father.” Parris eventually began a relationship with a woman, and ultimately left the church. He currently resides in Colorado. The suit accuses Eddie Long of coercion, negligence and fraud, and the plaintiffs seek unspecified damages.

CNN recounts the lawsuit’s most damning allegations:

“Defendant Long has a pattern and practice of singling out a select group of young male church members and using his authority as Bishop over them to ultimately bring them to a point of engaging in a sexual relationship,” the suits allege.

The pastor took one plaintiff, Anthony Flagg, 21, on overnight trips to a half-dozen American cities in recent years, Flagg’s suit alleges.

“Long shared a bedroom and engaged in intimate sexual contact with plaintiff Flagg including kissing, massaging, masturbating of plaintiff Flagg by defendant Long and oral sexual contact,” the suit says.

Long took the other plaintiff, Maurice Murray Robinson, 20, to Auckland, New Zealand, in October 2008 for his 18th birthday and engaged in oral sex with him, Robinson’s suit alleges.

“Following the New Zealand Trip, Defendant Long regularly engaged in sexual touching, and other sexual acts with Plaintiff Robinson,” Robinson’s suit alleges.

Long spokesman Art Franklin said Tuesday that “we categorically deny the allegations.”

“It is very unfortunate that someone has taken this course of action,” he said. “Our law firm will be able to respond once attorneys have had an opportunity to review the lawsuit.”

Before I step on my soap box, I’m gonna go ahead and give a shout out to Ghostface who said it best regarding Pulpit Pimps,

“Oooh! Rev. ain’t right, his church ain’t right
Deacon is a pimp, tell by his eyes
Mrs. Parks said, “Brother Starks, meet you at the numbers spot
Heard you got red tops out, and I want a lot”
Shirley fainted dead on the spot
Two ushers slipped eighty dollars right out the pot
Oh shit!”

Now there’s no denying the fact that Atlanta is a diverse city with a large black gay population. Pastor Ironic that a city with such a large black gay population would also host a mega church with a large black anti-gay population, headed by none other than Eddie Long. He is, incidentally, a self-appointed “Bishop” and described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “one of the most virulently homophobic black leaders in the religiously based anti-gay movement.”

Famous Eddie Long Quotes:

“Men can look attractive when they are dirty,” writes Bishop Eddie Long in his 1997 book I Don’t Want

Delilah, I Need You!

“We see sweating, dirty, hardworking men on television all the time and we say to one another, ‘There’s a macho guy.’”

The Down Low shyster had this to say about lesbians:

“It is the most unattractive thing I have ever seen, when I see women wearing uniforms that men would wear, and women fighting to get in the military!” Long shouted to his congregation then. ”The woman gets perverted to turn towards woman … and everybody knows it’s dangerous to enter an exit!

And everybody knows, lady, if you go to the store and buy these devices [marital aids], it’s Memorex! It ain’t real!”

The audience, seated in a congested sanctuary, erupts in laughter. But what Long says next is no joke.

“God says you deserve death!” And if they don’t change, he warns, they’re going straight to hell.

“Homosexuality and lesbianism are spiritual abortions,” Long says. “Homosexuality is a manifestation of the fallen man.”

- Pastor Eddie Long

Says the man who doesn’t think twice about comparing scripture with sexual intercourse. Queue video: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg2cg25jQyI&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

Furthermore, if you found these kind of pictures on your 16-18 year old SON’S phone what would you do, what would you think? Be honest.

For years, this anti-gay homophobe has judged the lifestyle of gay men and women, and in the process subjugated countless young men and women to the point of emotional and physical harm via the scrutiny coming from a host of hypocritical minor and major league Black Churches. They tend to have pastors that preach contradictory creeds such as “love the sinner, but hate the sin.” Perhaps it is that poetic justice doesn’t get any more literal than this.

Quoting bible passages will not stop one from being sued when dark deeds come to light. So why then are there still individuals within the black church who place more emphasis on the financial well being of their pastors and churches than their own family and personal growth. They depend on their pastor more than they depend on themselves. They’re more concerned with paying that 10% tithe than with paying their light bill. What these sheep fail to ascertain is that a pastor cannot sell them a spot into heaven. This isn’t politics. Access to God does not require a third-party, a pastor or preacher or minister or self-appointed Bishop or priest or anyone who is not YOU. Mega churches like this are not apart of any solution to the troubles found within the black community or any community for that matter. Mega churches are in the business of making money, and sustaining PERSONAL wealth. Wake up people.

Anytime your pastor is driving to church in a $300,000 BENTLEY y’all, there is something seriously wrong. How do you look bling-blinging from the pulpit?

I remember the day that Coretta Scott King was laid to rest. It was a sad day for Americans, and even more so, for gays and lesbians. We lost one of our strongest and greatest allies. Her views on LGBT rights were well known, at least within the gay and lesbian community. She was a proponent, a supporter of equal rights, and even went so far as to declare, “Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union. A constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages is a form of gay bashing, and it would do nothing at all to protect traditional marriages.”

She also said, “Homophobia is like racism and anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in that it seeks to dehumanize a large group of people, to deny their humanity, their dignity and personhood. This sets the stage for further repression and violence that spread all too easily to victimize the next minority group.”

So you can understand why I found it completely disrespectful that Eddie Long’s Church was chosen as Mrs. King’s final resting place. Coretta Scott King believed in gay rights, Pastor Eddie Long believes gays deserve death.

Mrs. King died with a message of peace and acceptance, yet bigotry is alive and well and that, for me, is the saddest scandal of all.

Mark 10:25 ‘It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.’

I leave you with this scathing, but fitting tribute to Pastor Eddie Long, et al.

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Nope, you still can’t pray away the gay.

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In the first video he sets his sights on openly gay singer and preacher, Tonex. I smell a sin and it’s middle name is jealousy. He does however go on to express the “love the sinner, hate the sin” creed when it came to expressing his distaste with Tonex’s openness, but not before calling him a straight up ”perversion”. Interestingly he didn’t have anything to say about Tonex until he came out in September 2009. Something else I’ve noticed as of late is how the “ex-gay” label is becoming somewhat of a hot commodity. What’s with the notoriety that certain ex-gays attain? Homosexuality is already demonized in practically every facet of life, yet it’s detestability is enough to be overlooked as long as you come out of it. You’re almost guaranteed a certain “celebrity” status and you’re granted a “come out of the closet for free” card as long as you espouse and denounce homosexuality. It reminds me of theblack guy who was asked to sit in the front row of one of John McCain’s town hall meetings on the campaign trail. One black man in a room full of conservatives plus one Sarah Palin. He was the black guy who begged McCain to step up the negative attacks on Pres. Obama. Yes, he begged, but I digress because the analogyisn’t fair at all. To be an ex-gay in Church is like being an newly conservative ex-liberal in a room full of rabid conservatives. 

Oh, you were an alcoholic, crack-head, wife beating, drug dealer? Yeah, well, we’ve got an ex-gay in the house. Next.
 
The problem I have with this is if McClurkin is so content, why not live a humble life of obscurity out of the lime light. Or, stay in it and do what made you famous in the first place, but whatever you do, stop harming gay youth! Tell your story, but don’t tell others their story. He knows better than anyone that hiding in the black church is a full time job, but he doesn’t have to hide anymore so he’s removed from it. As long as he’s speaking out against homosexuality while struggling with attraction to men,  he’s okay within the black church because he’s telling them what they want to hear. He should know all too well that closeted Christian gays and lesbians who feel trapped need unconditional love so badly. How do you go from singing God’s praises to berating the vulnerable? McClurkinhas a large, black, Christian, socially conservative (when it suits their purposes) support system that is almost impenetrable. His fan following from his singing, his congregation, priests and pastor colleagues and a growing list of Christian and non-Christian proponents make up a variety of Christian denominations who lend their support to Donnie McClurkin. To most gays he has become the side show attraction of the black church, drawing the suspecting and unsuspecting masses deeper into a reality that is all his own, and stirring an already boiling over pot. How long will it last? His rants seem to come and go in yearly spurts and he hasn’t toned down the rhetoric one bit, instead it’s been amped up considerably. The emotional baggage his sermons project is daunting and when you consider the psychological dysfunction within the messages, and the fact that he has such a widely accepting following, it causes me to take pause. What I see is a man that may no longer act upon his sexual desire, but has he really changed his orientation? I’ll keep my gay-dar to myself.

He had this to say about lesbians, “These young girls are just as bad as the boys in homosexuality, you don’t see it. They can hide … but there are some evil young hard butch girls.”

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People often draw parallels between the civil rights movement and the gay rights movement and I’m no exception. Such a declaration is usually followed by rejection or outright indignation over making such a comparison by those in heartfelt disagreement. Yet, most people have no idea that one of most important men in the history of the fight for black civil rights in America was an openly gay man, and one of Martin Luther King Jr’s top advisors.

His name is Bayard Rustin. He was admired and respected for his passion and non-violent spirit, which was key in revamping the way Dr. King would go on to fight against racism, discrimination, and prejudice in America. Rustin’s homosexuality was accepted among his colleagues and those close to the movement as long as it remained invisible. His most difficult times during the struggle would come on the heels of blackmail and threats used against him as a result of his sexuality.  There are instances where his colleagues were forced to choose between defending him or tossing him aside at the risk of being connected in any way to homosexuality.

This did not deter his efforts, instead it emboldened him to keep up the fight for black civil rights until they were fully granted. He refused to allow his sexuality to be used as a catalyst against himself, although he did understand why others were not willing to openly defend him because of it. For Rustin, that was a fight for another decade..

His magnetic personality and tireless work as an openly gay civil rights activist came as a blessing and a curse due to the times. Although Rustin didn’t shift his focus onto the gay rights movement until 1983, he will forever be remembered in history as a proponent of non-violence, tireless advocacy, and for having a fighting spirit that continues to live on through his surviving partner and the numerous advocacy organizations fostered in his name.

Indeed, if you want to know whether today people believe in democracy if you want to know whether they are true democrats, if you want to know whether they are human rights activists, the question to ask is, ‘What about gay people’? Because that is now the litmus paper by which this democracy is to be judged. The barometer for social change is measured by selecting the group that is most mistreated. To determine where society is with respect to change, one does not ask, ‘What do you think about the education of children’? Nor does one ask, ‘Do you believe the aged should have Social Security’. The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people. – Bayard Rustin

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Black Mormons came to exist within two years of the founding of the Mormon Church by Joseph Smith in 1832. Elijah Able was the first black elder and Seventy Apostle or “traveling minister”. As a carpenter he contributed to the construction of the Temple in Utah, however he was denied his own Endowment in the temple a few years later. He died as a priesthood-holder, and his son and grandson were also ordained Elders. A few other black men were also ordained before 1848. He, was one of only two to ever become a Seventy Apostle.

One of the few ideals that makes this religion so interesting was its immediate acceptance of blacks, even former slaves, into the church and it’s rank and file very early on. Joseph Smith was an early advocate for the rights of black people. That would soon change with the adoption of doctrines and a changing of the guard so to speak.

Today there are about 400,000 black Mormons and counting. However, most do not know that from 1848 until 1978 black Mormons were banned from the priesthood and temples of the LDS Church. The same temple that one of the earliest black Elders helped to build. This is known as the Priesthood Ban and the reason for this was the result of a policy know as the “Curse of Cain Doctrine”. These policies were official and taught by the Mormon Church and its leaders.

Despite this, church membership has grown steadily among black Americans as well as black Africans since 1978 when the “Legacy of Cain” Doctrine’s ban was put to rest. It was never repudiated, it was ended. Many will argue that the result of this ban was due more so to social and religious unrest and not because the Church suddenly experienced a moral epiphany. Black Mormons currently have all the rights and blessings that white Mormons “enjoy”. However, there has only been one Black Mormon Seventy since Elijah Abel and that individual hailed from Brazil. His name is Helvecio Martins.

I can’t leave this topic without touching a little on the subject of polygamy among traditional and fundamental Mormons. Let’s start with the founder.

Joseph Smith was married to many women and at least 10 of them were already married to other husbands. Many of his wives were young girls still in their teens and at least two are known to have been 14 years of age. His marriages to those women formerly married with husbands were deemed celestial meaning they were eternal and he was sealed to these women in life and in death. Their marriages to the other men were considered civil only.

The church was prominently for Proposition 8 and even went so far as to donate millions of dollars for their cause, to deny gays and lesbians the right to marry. A church with roots in POLYGAMY and “indirect” and often times concealed RACISM has now jumped into the spotlight as proponents of BIGOTRY against law abiding gays and lesbians.

Quite the stance to take from a church that only abandoned polygamy for legal and financial reasons: the federal government was threatening to seize church property and their tax exempt status threatened. Traditional Mormons who long for plural marriage should be happy to know that despite the Church’s stance, the doctrine is still in place.

Unfortunately, in their case against same-sex marriage, the church is willing to deny to all human beings equal protection under the law through hypocrisy and transference, taking the spotlight off their own marred history and speaking out against an institution that they themselves had to be forced to revamp, respect, and even then it is still widely and secretly practiced today.

The vast majority of Mormon faiths practice polygamy, and the LDS is a rare exception. I do realize with painful insight that most religions employ hypocrisy as a means to reach their goal whether it be through growth in numbers or spreading a popular or unpopular message, but for a church who considers itself the true word, consider spreading messages of love and acceptance instead of veiled bigotry.

“The Mormon The Mormon

Where women are treated like doormen

And men are taught to make many babies

They some whore men

They marry for eternity but they still be gettin’ divorced and

For decades claimed the Mark of Cain was X’d across my forehead

Yet still blacks kneel while praying to a God who thought them abhorrent”

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