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   From: trdell12345@gmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:05:41 -0500, P ø? t?! / ?· œ 
 wrote:   
      
   >On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 12:37:15 -0800, MattB    
   >wrote:   
   >   
   >>On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 08:43:14 -0500, Frank  wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 17:45:15 -0800, MattB.    
   >>>wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 20:28:36 -0500, Frank  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>New Harvard Research Says U.S. Christianity Is Not Shrinking, But   
   >>>>>Growing Stronger   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>>The percentage of Americans who attend church more than once a week,   
   >>>>>pray daily, and accept the Bible as wholly reliable and deeply   
   >>>>>instructive to their lives has remained absolutely, steel-bar constant   
   >>>>>for the last 50 years or more, right up to today. These authors   
   >>>>>describe this continuity as “patently persistent.”   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>The percentage of such people is also not small. One in three   
   >>>>>Americans prays multiple times a day, while one in 15 do so in other   
   >>>>>countries on average.   
   >>>   
   >>>>>These Are Not Isolated Findings   
   >>>>>http://thefederalist.com/2018/01/22/new-harvard-research-sa   
   s-u-s-christianity-not-shrinking-growing-stronger/   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>This study seems to confirm that the RCC is failing church   
   >>>   
   >>>It sure looks like matty has a serious comprehension problem.   
   >>   
   >>Patrick Barker did you even bother to read the article of just enough   
   >>to support whatever agenda you had   
   >>   
   >>"Mainline churches are tanking as if they have super-sized millstones   
   >>around their necks. Yes, these churches are hemorrhaging members in   
   >>startling numbers, but many of those folks are not leaving   
   >>Christianity. They are simply going elsewhere. Because of this   
   >>shifting, other very different kinds of churches are holding strong in   
   >>crowds and have been for as long as such data has been collected. In   
   >>some ways, they are even growing. This is what this new research has   
   >>found."   
   >>   
   >>Are you saying RCC is not a mainline Church?   
   >   
   >+ Your own words:   
   >Because of this   
   >shifting, other very different kinds of churches are holding strong in   
   >crowds and have been for as long as such data has been collected. In   
   >some ways, they are even growing. This is what this new research has   
   >found."   
      
      
   Well you can hope that refers to the RCC one of the  "as different   
   kinds of churches" and not one of the "Mainline churches" that are   
   failing.   
      
   The cover up of pedophilia within the RCC has not done much to help   
   them.   
      
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