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Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

Josh McDowell

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Josh McDowell
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 17
Apologist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Union City
Michigan
Josh P. McDowell
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