[lbo-talk] RE: Arguments for a Secular America

[npchilds at connect.ab.ca]

>I'm trying to think of a socially
>useful contribution of the Baptists. Maybe someone can help me out.


>Doug

--__--__--
Jerry Lee Lewis. And more jazz musicians than you can shake a stick at. Oh
yeah, and sex instead of dancing on Saturday night!

Actually I have relatives in rural Virginia, and when visiting them I'm
pretty sure I see homes for the elderly with the prefix 'Baptist home for
the....' whatever, and there are some fairly large research and teaching
hospitals with Baptist monnikers in the U.S. Not sure to what extent
they're 'really' Baptist and the extent to which they just inherited the
name.

PC