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When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong – faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.<\/p>\n–Bene Gesserit proverb<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong – faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.… Continue reading Religion and Politics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[610,609,607,608,385,68],"class_list":["post-6430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society","tag-bene-gesserit","tag-book","tag-dune","tag-literature","tag-politics","tag-religion","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-1FI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":93,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2004\/01\/06\/omfg\/","url_meta":{"origin":6430,"position":0},"title":"OMFG","author":"Keith Survell","date":"January 6, 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"I've been afraid before that America is rapidly decaying... but it seems as though it's happening faster than I thought. 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