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Truth is not democracy. I do not see any co-relation between the number of signatures on this petition and the validity of what is claimed in it.
Personally I think threatening children with hell fire is child abuse. But that is my ethical intuition speaking. And it has been wrong at times.
So I pose questions, are there studies documenting the long term ill effects of threatening children with hell fires? And what do those studies show?
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