Oh this is too good not to re-post in toto. From Abraham Piper’s blog, 22 Words:
To refer to peregrinating Celtic monks and fundamentalist lobbyists, Origen and Oral Roberts, the Desert Fathers and Tim LaHaye, Dante and Tammy Faye, St. Francis and the TV “Prosperity Gospel” hucksters, Lady Julian of Norwich and Jimmy Swaggart, John of the Cross and George W. Bush, all as “Christian” stretches the word so thin its meaning vanishes. The term “carbon-based life-form” is as informative.
David James Duncan, God Laughs & Plays, 49
I might extend the thought to the label “Baptist” as well. Does it helpfully define anyone when left-leaning folks like Bill Clinton, Tony Campolo, and Jimmy Carter have the same “Baptist” label as right-leaning folks like the late Jerry Falwell or Albert Mohler?
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