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Act_of_Reparation

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4. This doesn't make sense.

Reply to Soph0571 (Original post)

Mon Aug 20, 2018, 01:10 AM

Aug 2018

Why would fundamentalism be affecting membership in non-fundamentalist congregations? Education, access to information, mobility, suburbanization, and increased availability of secular social services make for more believable explanations.

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Fundamentalism undermining faith... [View all] Soph0571 Aug 2018 OP

It is undermining more than just faith (nt) NeoGreen Aug 2018 #1

Well said.. Permanut Aug 2018 #2

Fundamentalists are one version, one subset, guillaumeb Aug 2018 #3

This doesn't make sense. Act_of_Reparation Aug 2018 #4

This is a smart article. Though? Bretton Garcia Aug 2018 #5

Say what you will about fundamentalism... trotsky Aug 2018 #6