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Absolute truth. My wife was raised Catholic, educated at a Lutheran liberal arts college in the Upper Midwest. First job out of graduate school at Vanderbilt was in 1988, at a middle school in East Nashville, where two students buttonholed her one afternoon and asked "Mrs. O, are you Baptist or Christ"--by which, she deduced after some great astonishment, they actually meant "are you Baptist or Church of Christ." A Catholic or a Lutheran might as well have been a Zoroastrian to them.

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