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Jimmy Carter’s Covenant
Remodeling the Baptist faith is a little harder than growing peanuts.
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Scientology
. Or it could be certain versions of God
are easier for him to deal with dressed up in straw? Otherwise why
not reprint the damning bible pages altered to fit the needs of
religious Robber Barons? Where are the transcripts of sermons
misquoting Matthew with “evangelistic zeal,”
Again I tell you,
it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for
a poor man to enter the kingdom of God
?
p>Carter continues:
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On the other hand, there are those who consider ministering to the poor, the despised, and the homeless as important elements of Christianity. The first group often looks upon the second as less than truly Christian, sometimes using the phrase “secular humanist” to describe them.br> Guess which church Carter patronizes. Is it the new Trinity of Screw the poor! , Denigrate the despised! and Keep the homeless out of homes! that conservatives apparently so adore? Or is it the Church of Universal Magnanimity?
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