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relationship adultery,
"It took the Southern Baptists 150
biblically speaking?
years to apologize for the sin of slav-
Why did Jericho's walls
ery," he said. "Churches make mis-
come tumbling down? Did David
takes. It took the Catholic Church
really kill Goliath?
350 years to admit that Galileo had it
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right — the sun was at the center of
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