Word: hyperfundamentalist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Grandfather Sam Johnson started but as a Baptist, converted to the Disciples of Christ, ended up a Christadelphian-which may be why Lyndon's Cousin Oriole still belongs to that hyperfundamentalist sect. Christadelphians claim to be living in the "last days of Antichrist," do not feel called upon to engage in social or political welfare, and are not supposed to vote, though Cousin Oriole has voted for Lyndon. Johnson's parents were Hard-Shell Baptists, but at 14 Lyndon joined the Disciples of Christ (the Garfield faith), and was baptized in the Pedernales River a few miles from...
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