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To: Uncle Slayton
In almost all cases, you will find that the children of conservatives and Christians remain virgins until they are marries.

First of all not all conservatives are practicing Christians, so your premise is flawed...( I know shocking) so they would not stay virgins since conservative principles do not dictate no pre marries sex...

Secondly, when it comes to proclaimed self professing Christians in this country there is "ZERO" difference in social behaviors...compared to the general population

Third, but not lastly, either you are living under a rock to actually believe the nonsense you posted or it was a badly played "concern troll" post

83 posted on 09/16/2012 5:38:29 AM PDT by Popman (In a place you only dream of Where your soul is always free)
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To: Popman; wagglebee; little jeremiah; starman; trailhkr1; Uncle Slayton; workerbee
83 posted on Sun Sep 16 2012 07:38:29 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Popman: “Secondly, when it comes to proclaimed self professing Christians in this country there is ‘ZERO’ difference in social behaviors...compared to the general population.”

I'm the one who said the evangelical church world has a major problem in this area.

However, I can't agree with “zero difference.”

We also need to clarify our terms.

“Professing Christians” would include everything from “Christmas and Easter” people who aren't even on the membership rolls of a church anywhere to people in high-commitment congregations with a strong emphasis on personal conduct.

We also need to deal with the reality of repentance from sin. There's a huge difference between two young people in a lukewarm supposedly evangelical church who decide to go to bed and don't think it's that big of a deal, and a woman in college who has “been around” and has a radical conversion which results in a firm commitment not to be sexually involved with anyone else until marriage.

I realize it is impossible to statistically measure personal faith. However, church attendance is a statistically valid measure of the externals of personal commitment. It's not perfect, of course — we all can talk about people who have legitimate reasons not to be in church — but it is statistically valid.

You would find major differences in rates of promiscuity, as defined by multiple sexual partners over a designated period of time, and the rates of premarital sexual activity, if the general American population were compared to those who attend church or synagogue weekly or more often and did so during the period of time when pre-marital and non-marital sexual activity is being measured.

108 posted on 09/17/2012 9:07:53 AM PDT by darrellmaurina
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