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Jimmy Carter wants to bring Christians, specifically Baptists, together

Can he?

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Posted by Nancy H. McLaughlin on Monday, April 27, 2009 at 8:53 am

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nemo0037 (imported)

April 27, 2009 - 10:54 am EDT

The very nature of Christianity from its beginning has been one of division and parochialism. Being based on the Bible -- a collection of works that are both wide-ranging and full of symbolic language that would be hard to understand even for native speakers of the original languages -- it can't help but be that way, as it gas been from the very start.

Good luck tilting at more windmills, Jimmy.

nemo0037 (imported)

April 27, 2009 - 10:55 am EDT

"...HAS been from the very start," I meant to write. Darn blog won't let me edit.... {;-)

Darryl (imported)

April 27, 2009 - 11:04 am EDT

As much as I like/admire Jimmy Carter, I feel that his efforts will not succeed. There are far too many facets of Baptist peoples and the belief structures thereof would cause great discomfort. Sadly, for a group that was founded for openness and tolerance, Baptists have strayed far and wide from the foundations of the original group. How sad!

Kuranes (imported)

April 30, 2009 - 4:38 pm EDT

I'm with you, nemo (try clicking on "preview" before "post"; you can locate typos and go back to correct them). Not even Jesus can get Christians together, as history abundantly shows. His petition "that they may be one even as we (Jesus and the Father) are one" (John 17:11) has got to be the most spectacular failure in the history of prayer.