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Was Prince actually a conservative Christian?

CuratedWashington Post  |  April 22, 2016

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PrinceThe pop star’s faith was complex. Prince was raised a Seventh-day Adventist and later became a Jehovah’s Witness — two faith communities who have in different ways been rejected at times as Christian and seen by mainstream Protestantism as cults. But his beliefs and spirituality were his own.

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