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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Retrieved from a Facebook post on the wall of the ACLU Nationwide Fan Page:
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Welcome to the forum, rusticbard. A rustic bard should be in his/her element here.
I have some difficulty seeing how “faith” can be something more than a straight malapropism here. How could someone meet their faith, in the context? Some connection to religious faith and ethics, perhaps? Acting in bad faith?
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Meet the fate their faith teaches them to believe in?
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
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We’ve had a number of posts on FATEFUL/ FAITHFUL/ FATAL before.
You can find these posts by running the Search menu with one of those words.
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Check out this variation:
Eddie Murphy predicted that the gaints will win about 7 years ago in his movie Coming to america yep the packers faith was sealed a long long time ago
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Around 5k to go I was caught by 2 other racers so we pace lined but my 2nd time at the front was 2k from the finish and of course my faith was sealed at that point.
bicycle racing discussion
The moment they voted for air strike his and others faith was sealed. A ransom is worth their lives.
discussion of an ISIL beheading
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