Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Reagan grappled with such theoretical concepts, it was left to Vice President George Bush to launch a partisan counterattack to Mondale's criticism of the President. Said he: "I would say to Mr. Mondale, 'When you were serving with Jimmy Carter, a Fundamentalist Baptist, a man of deep convictions, I never heard this criticism. I don't recall, Mr. Mondale, your criticizing the National Council of Churches when they involved themselves, usually on the liberal side of most of these concerns.' This is a born-again concern of Mr. Mondale...
HARVEY COX, professor at the Harvard Divinity School, Baptist minister and author of The Secular City...
...JERRY FALWELL, founder of Moral Majority and chancellor of Liberty Baptist College, Lynchburg...
Where does religion fit in all this? He couldn't say exactly where, but he knew it was around. Businessmen regularly start the day with Bible-study breakfasts. Dallas contains the largest Southern Baptist congregation in the country, he told me, and some of the largest Methodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian churches. And 59.2% of Dallas County voted for Reagan...
...latest tour from the National Council of Churches, go to the Soviet Union and make up entirely new meanings for words like freedom. "We believe they are free,"said N.C.C. Tour Leader Bruce Rigdon of the McCormick Theological Seminary, referring to Soviet demonstrators thrown out of Moscow's Baptist Church. And some go to the Middle East, on which they pronounce solemn, chin-tugging judgment full of right and wrong and anguished ambivalence, to make up rules-for others. There are so many of these travelers that the Middle East has become, in Saul Bellow's words...