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What's the combination of education and gender that leads to the highest level of religious attendance?

It's men with graduate degrees.

That's appeared consistently in the data since 2016.

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C.S. Lewis’s advice to a young schoolgirl on how to become a better writer.

It is rather instructive…

I doubt that Hunter Biden has any interest in getting into politics. Bush Senior was all about the power and the junior Bushes were up for making a dynasty, until they actually tasted power and found out it was not all it’s cracked up to be. I wasn’t advocating for the Bushes, or criticizing Hunter in comparison. Life is hard enough when you are not genetically predisposed to be rewarded by things that wreck your decision making capabilities. Anyone who pulls themself out of any sort of addiction deserves respect and support. Didn’t mean to sidetrack this here.

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