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Killing the Church by Denigrating the Immediacy of God

Eliot Daley | Posted 11.30.2011

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Eliot Daley

We are smothering God. And our church. We're engaged in an unholy combination of implicit theocide and communal suicide.

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Evolution and Religion: Why Religion Pollsters Should Go to Seminary First

Pete Enns | Posted 05.25.2011

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Pete Enns

The options given in the poll about evolution, science, and the Bible are unwittingly set up to send the entire discussion down a tedious and dead-end path. No one should be surprised by the results when questions are asked that way.

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