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   From: œ@att.net   
      
   On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 14:27:54 -0800, MattB    
   wrote:   
      
   >On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 16:05:41 -0500, P ø? t?! / ?· œ 
œ@att.net> 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-s   
   ys-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.   
      
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