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Idols tend to be good things that you have turned into god things, which therefore become bad things

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Mark Driscoll
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: October 11
Pastor
Writer
Grand Forks
North Dakota
Things
Idols
Tend
Turned
Therefore
Become
Good

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