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Defending the Rednecks

January 5, 2006

I came across this fascinating article on Will Campbell, a baptist who actually appears to understand what religion is and who lives his life like an actual Christian - a true rarity in any time.

Nashville Scene - Nothing Sacred

Once, in a Katallagete open letter to Billy Graham, Campbell characterized evangelists who conduct big crusades as "Astrodome Isaiahs," then went on to say: "True, some are 'led to Christ' in the instituted Church today, but it is done against the stream of five-point grading programs, 'evangelistic crusades' planned and executed more like the Pentagon than St. Paul... Who spread all these lies about Jesus? He judges us by what we do to the children, the prisoners, the whores, the addicts, the scared and bewildered, the poor, the hungry - to 'the least of them...' "

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