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I did not say I agreed with them. But I draw attention to the fact that the people you malign – Shupe, Bromley, Barker, Wilson, Introvigne, Lewis, Richardson, Palmer, Wessinger, Ammerman, Melton, Tabor, Gallagher, Chryssides, etc., are leading scholars in this field, writing for top university presses, and that their views are in the majority in the field. 466 "