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This obsession with a physical object could be interpreted as Idolatry.
Paul ( I believe ) instructs Christians not to see martyrdom, and Jesus Himself instructed us not to be showy or ostentatious in our faith like "the Hypocrites, and the Pharisees. When you pray, close your door...they have already had their reward."
These people are, at best, misguided. At worst, they are precisely the sort of showy, flashy, hypocritical, legalist Pharisees that Jesus warned us against becoming. A sad state of affairs all around.
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"I personally think that America's interests would be well served if after or at the time these clowns begin their revolting little hate crime the local police come in and cart them off on some trumped up charges or other. It is necessary in my opinion that America makes an example of them to the world."
--Strange Famous, advocating the use of falsified charges in order to shut people up.
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