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Show Coffee Drinkers Preferred Page 253 of 3,07 way that I would be convicted of anything. And yet I just couldn't picture myself shooting another person. Maybe there really are men too gentle to live among wolves. Maybe some people are born without the mean gene. And do not think that this has anything to do with how pure people in my church are. All you need to do is check the court records to find out how many fine and upstanding members of my church end up killing people and getting put away for it. Some of the people in my church are such excellent murdererss that books get written about them. Land sakes, Ted Bundy was a member. No, if all it took to be a stone killer was membership in my church, well, Dale Cox would be Dead Cox by now. If he were pursuing almost any other member of my church he'd would have died several days ago. We have a long history of showing no remorse when it comes to protecting our own. See the Mountain Meadows Massacre. Many Allreds were among the righteous brethren that day when we mowed down a hundred and twenty men women and children. U.S. Citizens. Pioneers. Emigrants just trying to get to California. But they took a wrong turn and ended up in Utah. Oops. Too bad. The church lied about the murders for close to a hundred and fifty years. The truth will out. No, I was an .unusually unbloodthirsty member of The Church That Shall Not Be Named. The taxi pulled into The Marina parking lot. |