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go to limbo or something and sort of float around;
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there were all these popular beliefs about limbo.
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And so what he did is he
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went out and he looked at all these baptisms,
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certificates of baptism,thousands of them,
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to see how long it was that--how long did people,
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after the birth,did they baptize their children.
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And now people had already started thinking about that,
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The first religious sociologists were priests,
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at the end of the nineteenth century,
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who said,"People don't go to church anymore,why not?"
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And so they went out and they began to--