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Old 10-13-2006, 07:50 PM   #4
Flint
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
Christians very often are busybodies, and they very often use their Christianity to justify it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by BigV
I read the sentence as:

It is very often (not always, approximately equal to "some"times) the case that (a given) Christians act like busybodies.
When this happens, the justification for being a busybody is based on their ideas about Christianity.
There really isn't any other way to read that sentence, without adding "extras" to "customize" the meaning.

Like this:
(all) Christians very often (in every case) are busybodies, and they very often (always) use their Christianity to justify it.

note: this is not my opinion, so please don't make me waste my time over the next 50 posts explaining and re-explaining this
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