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| Tuesday, September 27, 2011 12:12PM | | | | Sit-In at Baylor Drug | Tags: Baylor University, Baptist, Drama, Paul Baker, Eugene McKinney, Thornton Wilder, integration, Baylor Drug, Abner McCall,
| | | | After two degrees from Baylor University, and two years teaching at Gardner-Webb, a Baptist college in North Carolina, I was invited to be a member of the Baylor Drama Department. Life Magazine, Saturday Review, Reader’s Digest, and other magazines and newspapers had given the department and its theater productions an international reputation. I was going to join my mentors, Paul Baker and Eugene McKinney. The impossible dream, had come true.
I had a wife and two young children and my first year I taught in summer school because I needed the income. That meant teaching three classes and directing a play in the summer theater program. My plan to write full-time in the summer was severely curtailed, especially since directing required the same kind of work... | | | | | | | Saturday, January 29, 2011 12:50PM | | | | Trash the Pledge | Tags: Pledge of Allegiance, War of Northern Aggression, Baptist, Socialist, superstition, blasphemy, amulet, secession, nullification, stimulus funds, Texas, deficit, Senator Cornyn,
| | | | When I was a school child we pledged allegiance to one nation, indivisible, but studied the “War Between the States.” Other children pledged allegiance but studied “The War of Northern Aggression.” Still others studied “The War of Southern Rebellion.” Some, particularly Jehovah’s Witness, were harassed and persecuted because they would not take an oath that violated their religious beliefs.
The pledge I recited wasn’t the original pledge written by Frances Bellamy, a Baptist minister and a Socialist, who believed America could have an economy with political, social and economic liberty for all. As chair of the state committee in the National Education Association he included the raising of the flag and the pledge in a Columbus Day celebration. “I pledge allegiance to my Flag and the... | | | | | | | Wednesday, February 18, 2009 3:54PM | | | | Southern Baptists and Abortion | Tags: Baptists, abortion, fundamentalists, Augustine, Acquinas, Billy Graham, W.A. Criswell, Paul Weyrich, immaculate conception
| | | | In male dominated cultures there has always been birth on demand. A woman’s primary duty was to provide a male heir for her husband. If she did not, her husband was free to use another woman for the purpose. That woman had no will of her own. (Genesis 16) It wasn’t rape because the woman had no rights.
In wars, the victors often killed everyone who wasn’t useful as a slave and Moses ordered Hebrew warriors to do so. Neither pregnant women nor their fetuses were spared. However, warriors could take virgin girls for personal use. (Numbers 31) A woman’s only alternative to birth on demand was abortion or suicide, often the same thing.
Chinese folklore mentions induced abortions in 5000 BC but the earliest recorded... | | | | | | | Wednesday, December 3, 2008 12:08PM | | | | A Man Born Blind | Tags: James Dobson, Martin Luther King, Jr., John the Baptist, Jesus
| | | | A Man Born Blind
John 9:1-4
Jesus and his disciples passed a man blind from birth and his disciples asked who sinned. Some Rabbis taught that there was no suffering without sin so Jesus’ troubled disciples asked whether he was blind because his parents sinned or because a fetus could sin in the womb. Jesus said that the man had been blind from birth so that God’s work could be revealed through him.
That troubled me as a child, that someone was blind from birth so that Jesus could heal him. Later I rationalized that I was blind to many things because I took them for granted, but being blind from birth everything this man saw was a miracle. Not just his first sight but everything he... | | | | | | | Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:34PM | | | | No Women Clergy | Tags: Adam, pope, Baptist, Bob Jones, apple
| | | | Parody of “Farmer’s Union Leader Knocks Woman’s Suffrage,” published in the Fort Worth Semi-weekly Record, Feb. 16, 1919
Why Women Are Unfit to be Pastors
The idea of a pink pulpit no doubt appeals to woman’s love for the ridiculous but for the church to unsex the human race so that a woman may rule over a man is human abomination and religious tofu. God gave Eve to Adam with the pledge that she would be his helpmate and with that order of companionship God has blessed woman and man has honored her. Now, after 6007 years, three months, four days and seventeen hours of progress, she proposes to provoke God and decoy man by amending an agreement to which she was not a party.
Why... | | | | | | | Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:57PM | | | | Slouching Toward Zion, Part IV | Tags: religion, Christian, Arab, Jew, Baptist, Missionary, Christ, scripture, Satan
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When Thurston and Elaine returned to Chillicothe from their visit to the Middle East they were changed forever. Elaine, who had never before traveled farther than Wichita Falls had a spiritual, intellectual and gynecological experience.
Thurston, who had chosen the gastronomical rather than the cultural tour, had experienced delight, dismay and diarrhea. He had discovered Arab cuisine. She had discovered what her gender meant.
Elaine had been born a woman and in... | | | | | | | Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:20PM | | | | Slouching Toward Zion, Part II | Tags: Jews, Baptists, Moses, Jesus, bible, pastor, fornication, adultry
| | | When Thurston and Elaine met Brother Jerry in Tel Aviv he was exactly what they had expected. Thurston expected he would be ponderous as befitted a Senator, CEO, college president, or preacher. Elaine expected he would be fulsome as befitted a Senator, CEO, college president, or preacher. Israel was not what they expected.
Chillicothe is dry, yea, verily, arid. Bereft of water, devoid of alcohol, more familiar with droughts than drams. In Chillicothe gobbles were more popular than gulps. For an orgy, Thurston and Elaine went to the “all the spaghetti you can eat” fund-raiser for the Lion’s Club.
| | | | | Friday, April 25, 2008 12:57PM | | | | Prayer Meeting at Baptist Church | Tags: Baptist, prayer, sickness, Methodist, Dallas Cowboys
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Wednesday night meant prayer meeting at the Chillicothe Baptist Church. Before praying together, Baptists tried to reconcile themselves to one another over ham hock and lima beans, with ice tea and peace cobbler.
First, Brother Wachel, announced that he felt pretty good for someone who had a funeral that morning. Next he identified the larger concerns of the whole church so that folks could pray about it. One of those concerns was the building fund. "Due to the increased activity of our young people we need to enlarge the nursery," he said.
No one laughed. No one listened.
Another concern was that Brother Elroy was not fulfilling his role as deacon in charge of visitation. Some of the pew racks did not have... | | | | | | | Friday, December 14, 2007 10:42AM | | | | DO YOU HAVE A RAPTURE LAWYER? | Tags: religion, estate, rapture, church, pope, Southern Baptist, lawyer, liberal, Supreme Court, Jesus,
| | | | The Lord is going to return very soon, probably before the next election. If your chances of being raptured are greater than those of a pecan pie at a Baptist picnic you need a rapture lawyer. As you rise into glory, what happens to your estate?
You may think you don't need a rapture lawyer because you have a valid will leaving everything to your wife. What if the rapture comes while you are driving your car, you disappear in the air, and your car goes smash into an X-rated video store? Your wife is going to the poor house, and your estate is going to a pornographer and pervert.
You may think you don't need a rapture lawyer because you have given up driving, along... | | | | | |
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