“God said Nuke ’em” was the other headline I was considering using. Anyway, let’s look at a “letter to the editor” that contains a quite bizarre analogy…<\/p>\n
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Let’s focus on the top one which was designed to announce the National Day of Prayer event at the Halifax County High School on May 1st. The letter goes hilariously off-track with some paragraphs that sort of equate a nuclear bomb to prayer. Honestly, I’m lost after this. The letter gets back on track at the end by saying that prayer is the most powerful weapon.<\/p>\n
I love letters to the editor like this. I’m praying for more of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
“God said Nuke ’em” was the other headline I was considering using. Anyway, let’s look at a “letter to the editor” that contains a quite bizarre analogy…<\/p>\n
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