by Haruo » Thu Aug 08, 2019 1:45 pm
Well, I look at it this way: 1) We know that John was the first Baptist, all the way back when Jesus was getting started, and we know John was a Calvinist, because hey, 2) Calvin himself was a John. Whatever happened in the 1600s is a day late and a dollar short.
I did have an aunt, Margie, my father's elder sister, who traced her Baptist roots all the way back to John. But she was a bit of a flake, religionwise. She even went Eddyite for a while. My Dad thought she was a loon, and sometimes said so. She was also responsible for getting Grandma convinced in 1960 that a vote for JFK (whom my dad supported) was a vote for the Catholics to take all the guns they were hoarding, that they bought with the Bingo rake-ins, out of their basements and take over the country.
Haruo = Leland Bryant Ross
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