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To: doc1019

Fred P. is a defrocked Primative Baptist IIRC, I had some experience with them in the hills of VA.

Primatives were snake handlers, etc. Full Gospel.

I remember going to a backwoods church in VA in the late 70’s to hear Win Worley, a Baptist exorcist out of Indiana.

It was a real deal- it took several of us to hold down a 13 year-old girl who was being delivered...

Pretty wild shit. Google Win Worley.


9 posted on 08/14/2012 10:00:05 PM PDT by One Name
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To: One Name

Fred is a special case, to be sure. It’s more like an extortion ring than a church. They try to stir up trouble so they can sue. Multiple lawyers in the group. Nothing remotely like real PB folks.

BTW, I hung out with the PBs for a while. No snake handling. No exorcism. A great deal of Bible, though, and their own unique version of succession direct from the apostle Paul. And wonderful singers too. No musical instruments allowed. I don’t know who your snake handlers were, but I’d bet a fair sum they weren’t classic PBs.


13 posted on 08/14/2012 10:24:33 PM PDT by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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Fred P. is a defrocked Primative Baptist IIRC...

He's a Kansas Democrat and Gore supporter.

14 posted on 08/14/2012 10:27:33 PM PDT by Flycatcher (God speaks to us, through the supernal lightness of birds, in a special type of poetry.)
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To: One Name; boatbums

Srsly: (check my tag line) How do you defrock a Baptist minister? Who has the authority?

I do think we’ve forgotten that our polity not only depends on the our being a religious and moral people but also on courtesy. “Politeness” and “civility” are both words which, at their root, suggest something about the arts of living in community.

I think boatbums is on the money. I could see, for example, Dominican friars in their habits strolling through a festival organized by Baptists, but I would deplore their taking a bullhorn and making general addresses as much as I would deplore a Muslim coming to a mint-julep party and turning the conversation to the evils of drink.


29 posted on 08/15/2012 4:53:54 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Depone serpentem et ab veneno gradere.)
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