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bmbmd

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2. This is the elephant in the room, I think.

Reply to patrice (Original post)

Fri Nov 2, 2012, 10:12 PM

Nov 2012

The only time Jesus got really angry was when he drove the moneychangers from the temple. "My father's house is a house of prayer, and you have made it a house of commerce". Then he made a whip of ropes, and drove them from the temple.

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I know it's just anecdotal, but my very moderate, raised Southern Baptist neighbor is [View all] patrice Nov 2012 OP

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