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Religion and the threat effect

Started by Unbeliever, June 15, 2007, 01:43:36 pm

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Unbeliever

June 15, 2007, 01:43:36 pm Last Edit: January 20, 2011, 05:01:40 pm by Unbeliever
QuoteResearch shows that the more secularists there are living near evangelicals, the more politically conservative those evangelicals will be. Might the secular start developing this same kind of tribalism?

http://www.prospect.org//cs/articles;jsessionid=a2QLq6QB-VqeBOjCTm?article=religion_and_the_threat_effect
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