Societies worse off 'when they have God on their side'

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mainline/liberal

Why are you putting those two together?

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While I guess not all mainline Christians are liberal,

No where near all

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That would depend how "mainline" is defined and how "liberal" is defined

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Most religious groups don't believe that y'know...

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Mainline is pretty easy, any non-evangelical or fundamentalist Protestant.

Yes, but what is "evangelical" and what is "fundamentalist"? Btw, there are some Anglicans that I'd describe as fundies; are they "mainline"?

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Well what wikipedia says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Christianity

Can't be bothered to read the second article, but the first is just shoddy... if there's one thing Evangelicalism (which is afterall a very, very broad term) isn't it's a conservative tendency.

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That's an absurd classification

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no more or less absurd than the standard by which these "researchers" determined which side god was on in the first place. 

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