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Liberal, city (1990 pop. 16,573), seat of Seward co., SW Kans.; founded 1888, inc. 1945. It is the trade center for a grazing and farm area. Oil and natural gas are extracted, and helium is processed in the city. Meatpacking and sand and gravel are also important to the economy. The traditional International Pancake Race between the housewives of Liberal and Olney, England, is held annually on Shrove Tuesday.
liberal
1. relating to or having social and political views that favour progress and reform
2. relating to or having policies or views advocating individual freedom
3. of or relating to an education that aims to develop general cultural interests and intellectual ability


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There is thus a lively debate not over whether those liberalisms can have a theological justification at all, but also which liberalism has the best theological justification.
But it is possible to argue that contemporary liberalisms understanding of the necessary separations between church and state is based not on an ignorance of religion's totality but on a disciplined understanding of totality's implications.
All of these older liberalisms have, as Gray points out, a notion of "rational choice" at their core.
 
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