Carter draws huge church crowd for Baptist message

[struggle4progress]

The Associated Press

Sunday, February 01, 2009

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Former President Jimmy Carter addressed a packed Sixteenth Street Baptist Church with his New Baptist Covenant message of racial reconciliation and cooperation on social issues.

Some 1,200 people filled the historic Birmingham church Saturday where four black girls died in a 1963 Ku Klux Klan bombing ...

Carter told the Southeast regional meeting of the new Baptist organization he helped found last year in Atlanta that there’s “no way for us to ignore Jesus’ emphasis on the poor, the brokenhearted” ...

Carter recalled a time when racial prejudice was rampant in Baptist churches, and theologians defended separate worship ...

http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/stories/2009/02/01/Carter_Baptists_Alabama.html

[Hardrada]

1. The true loving message now in a church.. We owe a lot to Jimmy Carter.

[struggle4progress]

4. Who would have thought forty five years ago that one day an ex-President

would have been standing in that church, trying to strip power from the Southern Baptists, and that an African-American would be in the White House?

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http://www.findagrave.com.nyud.net:8090/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=pis&GRid=6433252&PIgrid=6433252&PIcrid=23140&PIpi=1714248&

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[ZombieHorde]

2. Are Baptist's messages different than other Christian's messages?

Why the Baptist distinction?

[Warpy]

3. Baptists think that once you're "saved," your ticket is punched

for heaven, no matter how big an asshole you still are here on earth.

It's why they've long been such suckers for the right wing.

Jimmy Carter and Bill Moyers got the point, though.