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Old 06-20-2007, 03:46 AM   #4 (permalink)
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The largest difficulty nowadays still seems to be the political movements -- the notion that it is the church's job to create a theocracy, rather than simply having people as individuals be effective in their roles in life and impact the lives of those around them.
I hope that the theocracy stuff is losing some steam. Sometimes it seems as though it is, other times I think it's simply that I'm around a different group of believers. I've lost my tolerance for, well, intolerance, not to mention the complete overlooking of the social justice and economic teachings of the Bible.
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