ABSOLUTION Because life was born of appetites' demand whose predatory laws put children at risk longing for the power to build a fine castle free of the hunger and degradation if peasants persuade to shun resistance but tramp to cities for paid compensation at imperial wars of religious faith on the low road to World economy if workers maneuver to decent remuneration dreaming retirement in much better health, are sins forgiven since everyone arrives long after the fact of global creation?

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