A new study making its rounds in Christian media reports that people who attend churches with large congregations have more intense, more conservative, and more fundamentalist-literalist beliefs than Christians who attend small churches
I fear this is a bit like the popularity of the grease pushing fast food places vs. the mom and pop diners, often sharing parking lots along America's byways. Or am I reading too little into this?
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