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Taking Jesus Back from the Hijackers
...Used to be a time, Stassen reminds us, when he could teach Southern Baptist seminary students and argue that there are two kinds of religion: authoritarian and compassionate. And he could of course encourage them toward the compassionate kind. But these days the Southern Baptists won't hear it anymore. In fact, says Stassen, the Baptists have become the new KGB, the secret police of the 21st Century. Don't call them, they'll call you. Reagan and Gorbachev were two people Stassen could work with, but the Southern Baptists today? They are impossible....