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People are beginning to notice that feminism hasn't been this great boon for women, culture, society, men, children,

and beginning to see that the roots of it are so problematic and just recognize that maybe it hasn't been all that it has promised.

There are people on the right who are overtly embracing the ideas of neo-Marxism.

The same idea is the look left embraced, only deployed by the right.

But I keep saying, poison is just poison.

I don't care if you take poison and drink it out of a bottle labeled the left or drink it out of a bottle labeled the right.

It's still poison.

The relationship between the Testaments isn't law and then gospel, right?

No, the relationship between Old Testament and the New Testament is promise and fulfillment.

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