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Statistics new show MORE Christian couples get divorced than atheists and other religions
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Posted on 08/01/2010 12:24:10 PM PDT by geraldmcg

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To: stormer

The use of four letter, gutteral Anglo-Saxon words has long been the mark of a very stunted vocabulary, stormer. I wouldn’t be smug about it, if I were you.


41 posted on 08/01/2010 8:16:53 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Cboldt

What does “live in sin” mean?


42 posted on 08/01/2010 8:53:41 PM PDT by LiteKeeper ("It's the peoples' seat!")
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To: RegulatorCountry

Well let me tell you something, Mr. RegulatorCountry, I’m really not interested in your opinion of my vocabulary or of my style of communication. I consider you nothing more than limaceous galactophage.


43 posted on 08/01/2010 10:52:42 PM PDT by stormer
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To: stormer

You’re pitiful.


44 posted on 08/01/2010 10:55:54 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

Perhaps, but I've got a very large vocabulary.

45 posted on 08/01/2010 11:01:26 PM PDT by stormer
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To: geraldmcg

2008 study by Barna: Evangelical Christians have lower divorce rates. He allows people to define themselves as “born-again,” It is always the so-called “born-agains” that mimic the society as a whole. He has his own methodology that leads to provocative headlines. Perhaps the question is better, “Which Christians are serious about their faith?”

Divorce Among Adults Who Have Been Married

(Base: 3792 adults)

Population Segment Have Been Divorced No. of Interviews

All adults 33% 3792

Evangelical Christians 26% 339
Non-evangelical born again Christians 33% 1373
Notional Christians 33% 1488
Associated with non Christian faith 38% 197
Atheist or agnostic 30% 269
All born again Christians 32% 1712
All non born again Christians 33% 2080

Protestant 34% 1997
Catholic 28% 875

Upscale 22% 450
Downscale 39% 367

White 32% 2641
African-American 36% 464
Hispanic 31% 458
Asian 20% 128

Conservative 28% 1343
Moderate 33% 1720
Liberal 37% 474

(Source: The Barna Group, Ventura, CA)


46 posted on 08/01/2010 11:12:23 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: LiteKeeper
--What does "live in sin" mean? --

It's a euphemism for "shack up." I guess "shack up" is a euphemism too, but perhaps you are familiar with it.

47 posted on 08/02/2010 1:01:20 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: stormer
Well, it seems you actually are rather preoccupied with my opinion of your vocabulary, contrary to your own protestations to the contrary, stormer.

You're vacillating between banality and puffery, here, not as if the two are mutually exclusive, as you so aptly demonstrate.

Given the choice of reading juvenile excessive use of four-letter words and juvenile excessive use of nickel words, I suppose I'll take the nickel words, though, so carry on.

Good morning.

48 posted on 08/02/2010 3:48:28 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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49 posted on 08/02/2010 6:43:57 AM PDT by stormer
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To: Cboldt

I think I know what you mean, but I am curious where it is found in the Christian Bible. Where and how is it defined in your scriptures?


50 posted on 08/02/2010 7:30:12 AM PDT by LiteKeeper ("It's the peoples' seat!")
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-- I am curious where it is found in the Christian Bible. Where and how is it defined in your scriptures? --

I bet google would turn up something for you, on that line of inquiry. My remark was based on many Christian churches teaching, right or wrong, that sex without lifelong commitment is wrong.

51 posted on 08/02/2010 7:51:34 AM PDT by Cboldt
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that is the very issue I am wrestling with. I have heard this term used by many churches, but I don't see any Scripture to back it up. NOTE: I am referring to couples who are together, may even have had a child, and have made that life-long commitment...they just have not yet had a ceremony.

I can't find anywhere in Scripture where a marriage is defined by a ceremony, only by a heart commitment on the part of the two.

52 posted on 08/02/2010 8:18:31 AM PDT by LiteKeeper ("It's the peoples' seat!")
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