I'm interviewing a Baptist minister tomorrow

[shadowknows69]

any question suggestions?

[SteppingRazor]

1. Um...depends. Why are you interviewing him?

[shadowknows69]

5. Long form human interest/community public figure story

for my website. He also sits on our city council. I don't want it to be an adversarial interview by any means but that doesn't mean we can't pose some intriguing questions.

[SteppingRazor]

11. If he also sits on your city council...

I think his take on separation of church and state might by edifying.

[shadowknows69]

21. oh we'll be touching on that rest assured

[sasquatch]

2. If there's a burlap sack in the room that moves.....

RUN!!!!!!!

[shadowknows69]

7. Snakes...Why did it have to be snakes n/t

[bobbieinok]

23. Baptists DON'T do snakes; a small pentecostal group does

[Walt Starr]

3. Man, Baptists...

Baptists run the gamut! some can be as liberal a person as you've ever met and others breathe more fire than Chuck Colson, Pat Robem$ome, and Jerry Falwell all rolle into one!

[Just Me]

13. True, that.

True!!!

[Bluebear]

4. First question: Do you have any snakes with you at this time?

Just for your own protection.

[shadowknows69]

6. No, but I am a Pagan

which I think I'll forget to inform him of. I used to be Baptist too so it should be an interesting little flashback.

[Bluebear]

9. No no, you should ask HIM that!

He may be moved to handle them in front of you! :scared:

[rzemanfl]

8. Ask him if I can have his car after he gets raptured. n/t

[shadowknows69]

18. beautiful

I may just do that

[rzemanfl]

24. Fine, the keys will be in his pants, which get left behind. n/t

[JohnyCanuck]

10. Ask him if you have to believe in Dubya as your personal savior

if you want to be saved and go to heaven.

[Lars39]

12. What kind of Baptist?

Southern Baptist, Free Will, American?

[Just Me]

14. Ask him what is his vision for his community.

How does he plan to make that vision real?

[BR_Parkway]

15. How does he plan to do his best for ALL citizens of the city, not just

the ones who vote for him. What is he going to do to represent everyone's interests? That is what elected officials are supposed to do, but we've gone down this partisan road and need to start taking it back from the grass roots level. Where he sits.

[jody]

16. Ask him how can the city use Bush’s “Faith Based Initiatives” program

to help the truly needy in your city.

[shadowknows69]

19. good one

I hadn't thought of that actually

[iconoclastic cat]

17. "Will you be moving to North Carolina soon?"

[shadowknows69]

20. I thought it was SC they wanted.

I'll let you all know when it's done and give you the link to the video.

[ken-in-seattle]

22. What state? there are some wide varieties in Baptist.

The southern Baptist were taken over and most of the liberals purged a few years ago. One interesting question for him would be how were you hired for your present gig?

Most baptist ministers are itenerant, They sign on or get hired by the individual church rather than being assigned by a higher organization. So they serve "at will" of their congregation, or more correctly "at the pleasure" of their selection committee. The repubs started out infiltrating the selection committees in the 70's and 80's and making sure that some of the more liberal or low-key baptist churches got hand picked political operatives.
This method insures that there is never any dissenting view to whatever the local prejudices are.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

25. Ask him if it'll bother the kids seeing so many nekkid people during

the rapture.

How did Noah sex the Zebra finches?

and... Where the hell did they keep the food for all those animals?

Does he really believe that a talking snake didn't give eve a clue something was up or was Eve jsut exceptionally stupid?