"Christians have oppressed Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, Pagans, and each other throughout their centuries of power, preaching religious intolerance as the word of Jehovah whenever they had the military, political, or economic power to make it stick β and then piously preaching brotherhood, peace, and toleration when they didn't."
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Isaac Bonewits
Phillip Emmons Isaac Bonewits (October 1, 1949 β August 12, 2010) was an influential Neopagan leader and author. Bonewits was heavily involved in occultism with an emphasis on Neo-druidism since the 1960s.
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