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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Thomas C. White who wrote (22884)	6/13/1998 4:57:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Thomas, to some degree I responded to the points you make in your post when I answered Penni's. I guess I would just reiterate that this is the largest Christian church, adding three to four individual congregations a day. As you must know, they are a proselytizing church, and they are fierce and tenacious at it, as is evidenced by their recent, very public statements about converting Mormons and Jews. Anyone in America can believe anything they choose, as an individual. That is what freedom of religion is about. When a church has a very staunch political agenda, and the goal is to influence the larger society, as the Baptists are certainly trying to do, then their belief system becomes more political than religious to me, however. From discussions on television, I gathered that the fundamentalists have taken over the convention to the extent that people representing more moderate factions simply chose to stay home this year. It will be interesting to see if any prominent Southern Baptists speak out publicly against the return to male domination. I certainly hope that they will!!