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PEOPLE will gather tomorrow in a religious building to thank God for weapons.
The building in question is not a fundamentalist mosque. It is not a way-out church in the US calling on its members to bomb abortion clinics.
It is Westminster Abbey, a prominent Christian church in the centre of London and one of Britain’s most prominent tourist attractions.
The abbey is holding a service to “recognise 50 years of continuous at-sea deterrent.”
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