>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 09/24/99 07:15PM >>>
Charles Brown wrote:
>Jesus died young. And he hung out with prostitutes, those possessed
>by demons, and the wretched and unclean of the earth in general.
>Maybe these thumpers better read, rather than thump, their Bibles
>before they get too far into this Jesus stuff.
Wasn't American Protestantism once characterized by extreme anxiety over damnation and fear of God's wrath? It seems American evangelicals now think they've got the key to the kingdom and they never have to worry about anything. Am I missing something?
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Charles: Might be some whistling past the graveyard in that evangelical unworried facade.
CB