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Evangelicals are usually very sensitive as to what people say and think about them whereas the driving force for Fundamentalists generally is not their perception by others, but their faithfulness to Scripture. Many years ago Evangelicals sold their souls for respectability. However, genuine Christians will always be persecuted and scorned as Paul wrote in I Cor. 4:13, “We are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.” Evangelicals will polish all the liberal apples and “make a deal with the devil” to gain the favor and acceptance of polite society, seeking...

The United States has 90 guns for every 100 citizens, making it the most heavily armed society in the world, a report released on Tuesday said. U.S. citizens own 270 million of the world's 875 million known firearms, according to the Small Arms Survey 2007 by the Geneva-based Graduate Institute of International Studies. About 4.5 million of the 8 million new guns manufactured worldwide each year are purchased in the United States, it said.

Two wounded in attempted holdup at Tacoma auto parts store THE NEWS TRIBUNE Published: September 29th, 2005 11:10 AM DEAN J. KOEPFLER/The News Tribune Tacoma police officers and investigators comb through evidence in front of the Schuck's Auto Supply store at 72nd and Portland Ave. in Tacoma Thursday morning at the scene of a double shooting. Two people were wounded Thursday morning in an attempted robbery at an auto parts store at 72nd and Portland Avenue in Tacoma. Police gave this account:A man with a gas can came into the Schucks Auto Supply store and began to fuel a motorcycle...