At nine years old, I never really thought about religion before. ... For thousands of years Israel and Palestine have been battling over an ideology that has no basis in fact "struggling over a strip of land no bigger than Los Angeles. ... Another shortcoming to this toleration-society is that in attempting to embrace all religions, a culture similar to that of Old Testament Israel is promoted. ...

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