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by Andre E. JohnsonR3 Editor In response to a recent post I made on conservative evangelicals and Mormons, here is an example of the struggle that some conservative evangelicals are currently going through or what I call theological cognitive dissonance. The first clip is Pastor Robert Jeffries who at the Values Voter Summit this year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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