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Stephen Fox wrote:As this thread is turning into another carnival
Stephen Fox wrote:HORSEPOOP:
Randall Balmer
James Dunn who spent ten years and more fighting Helms and his minions including Eagle Forum's Albert Lee Smith and the Helms attempts to control the Baptist Joint Committee as part of the Council for National Policy vendetta against Dunn and Jimmy Allen and their support of Jimmy Carter, which that Bircher network could not stand.
Molly Worthen
Joe Ferguson, in fact has a chapter on Helms and the SBC In Hard Right
Ellen Rosenberg
Bill Moyers
Robert Wuthnow
Furman religion Department past and present particularly Helen Lee Turner who knew Helms operative Sam Currin.
Tom Edsall as he did last weekend in NY Times
Charles Marsh and his Father Robert
Randall Lolley and Bill Self
Cecil Sherman and UNC Chancellor Bill Friday which I often reference on my blog
And the oft mentioned BX 6400's if there are any other questions left unanswered
Re: Phyliss Schlafly key ally in Fundy SBC Takeover, is Dead
Sandy wrote:History has already decided, the SBC conservative resurgence was more than three decades ago, everyone has moved on, nothing will ever return to where it was, and there is a whole new set of issues and problems which the SBC, and the sparse and scattered splinters that came out of it, are now dealing with.
Timothy Bonney wrote:Sandy wrote:History has already decided, the SBC conservative resurgence was more than three decades ago, everyone has moved on, nothing will ever return to where it was, and there is a whole new set of issues and problems which the SBC, and the sparse and scattered splinters that came out of it, are now dealing with.
It is hard to know when to move on Sandy. It is probably easier now for me not being a Baptist any longer. I sympathize with Fox having a hard time getting past it since he is still in the Bible belt living with the aftereffects.
Timothy Bonney wrote:And does it make any difference any longer to argue about why the Takeover/Resurgence happened? As you've said Sandy, it is history now. The SBC is what it is now, not what it was 30 or 40 years ago. I've pretty much decided not to argue about it any more.
Sandy wrote:In a genuinely honest discussion, most of the motivation behind how people think, what they did, and where they wound up with regard to the SBC was largely based on their own perspective, and was probably selfish in that regard.
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