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" Neither Muslims nor anyone else truly worships the true God if they reject Jesus as he really is in the Gospels. "
John Piper
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" As a child and a teenager, my attitudes and actions assumed the superiority of my race in almost every way without knowing or wanting to know anybody who was black, except Lucy. Lucy came to our house on Saturdays to help my mother clean. I liked Lucy, but the whole structure of the relationship was demeaning. "
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