This case, which showed federal debt rocketing to 947% of GDP by 2084, became Holy Scripture for both Democrats and Republicans.

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Even after the Riyadh bombing, anonymous writers on the internet chat sites where militant views proliferate have cited holy scripture to explain that the end justifies the means.

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"Indeed, his life story has emerged as an odd sort of holy scripture for entrepreneurs, a gospel and an anti-gospel at the same time, " said the article, by Ben Austen.

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Nearby, Trevor Reid, a farmer from Dungannon who said he had lost four members of his family to republican killings, handed out pages of Holy Scripture to anyone who would take them, telling his audience that the Mitchell proposals were immoral on biblical grounds.

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