Politics and Religion: Left and Right


	Politics and Religion: Left and Right

jafost

6-1-2007 6:03 PM

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politics, religion, christianity, church of christ, restoration movement

jafost says:

Those knives that the religious left are sharpening for the religious right certainly cut both ways, don't they?

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