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Where do Evangelical and Protestant church members come from? Are they born into their group or do they convert into this group? This is the question Brad Wright asks and probes in the 4th chap of his excellent new book, Christians Are Hate-Filled Hypocrites\u2026and Other Lies You\u2019ve Been Told: A Sociologist Shatters Myths From the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evangelicalism"],"yoast_head":"\n
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