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The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.
Shane Claiborne
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Shane Claiborne
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: July 11
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