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Thread #99283   Message #1978387
Posted By: frogprince
24-Feb-07 - 06:10 PM
Thread Name: BS: Faith-based Initiative to Supreme Court
Subject: RE: BS: Faith-based Initiative to Supreme Court
Once again, we're into areas in which my feelings are very torn. I grew up an evangelical, among evangelicals, and I still find so many of them to be "the salt of the earth" in so many ways. Then I skim our Saturday paper, the day that majors in religious coverage. There is a mention today of something I missed back at the time: a couple of years ago, the Southern Baptist Convention, the biggest protestant body in the U.S., passed a resolution condemning environmental activism. So where, for Yahweh's sake, is the line between "mainstream" and the dangerous fringe? Dean