"Writer and renegade preacher Will D. Campbell is probably the only ordained Baptist minister dead or alive ever to call one of the Southern Baptist Convention's highest ranking officials a "hypocrite and a jackass." To his face, no less.
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"Soul molesters, that's what I call these television evangelists," Campbell says during an interview at his log cabin writing retreat just across the Davidson County line in Wilson County. "Soul molesters. That bunch that call themselves Christian. They are not Christian, but a very powerful political group". Groups like those with Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, those people that run the [Southern Baptist Convention] Lifeway show. They don't show me much about the Christian faith. They hate, hate everybody except themselves and their power. Falwell stood down there at the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) meeting in Nashville recently and said, 'We won this election.' And he spoke the truth. They did elect George W. Bush."
Oh, how nice to hear that. Only if the rest of the Christian world would stand up to these idiots. Instead of sending them money. And buying their books.
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Well, I can't say I love all the CR leaders. Some of them are like the Pharisees, but were we any better off before? I had one fellow who had been in the mod. camp tell me he was called into the office of a former pres of sbc and told to get back in line or a contract would be taken out on him. I said,"You mean a Mafia hit contract." He said, "That's exactly what I mean." So the rascals of those years were voted out and a new set was voted in. The more things change, the more things stay the same. Could both the Conservatives and the Moderates be controlled by one outside group? I have often thought so, seeing where they have all went running. The name of the game is power, the aphrodesiac par excellence.
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