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No Sympathy for the Devil

by The editor•21 July 2025•Posted inReal Clear Politics

There is a sickness inside our hearts. It aches for something brighter, better, a more resplendent mode of being. God, perhaps. Or temporary deliverance from the pain of being alive, and of knowing we

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