[horse_doc]

Thanks for the book reference - I'll pick it up.

I'm sorry that he missed step one, though. It really is important, in initially blurring the lines between the sacred and the profane.

I'm sure people will howl at me for saying it, but steps 2-5 follow step one every, single time, over the course of a few decades.

[too much time]

Our CBF preacher’s favorite topics are peace (and we “pass the peace” in our Baptist church), peace, tolerance, peace, diversity, and peace. He is still in a coat and tie, though - it is all a guise. He is still fooling some of the little old ladies. I don’t know how the WWII vets sit there as he quotes Bonhoffer and retells the WWI Christmas Eve story where the sweet German troops sang Holy Night with the british troops. He also likes to tell us how racist the world is and how shameful slavery was. I think he must have been racist in the past and now feels guilt from it.