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...well over 80 percent, but you wouldn't know it to look at a crowd. Steering that middle course between atheism and fundamentalism often puts one on slippery ground. Often it is easier not even to try to explain how one can believe in God but not school prayer, or in the Supreme Being but not every word in the Gospels...
Actually, you're wrong. I'm an Eastern intellectual liberal--the type who contributes to the ACLU, votes for Democrats and wants to keep prayer out school. And I think creationism is silly, just...
...inevitably became sensitive. Bakker grew livid. Recalls Hull: "His eyes smoldered. He got more fidgety. Then he leaped from his living-room chair and dashed to the kitchen in a huff. I started to follow after him, but was dissuaded by Bakker's cadre of supporters, who said a prayer for us." To many of Bakker's admirers, reporters seemed to need straightening out. "I endured long lectures by Bakker's followers, who scolded me for doing the devil's work," says Hull...
...depths, at PTL. From a jury-rigged studio, which began broadcasting in 1974 from an old furniture store in Charlotte, Jim and Tammy Bakker had nurtured a Christian entertainment colossus. But the mountains of documents at PTL show that the ministry ran, almost literally, on a wing and a prayer. At one time the ministry spent employee retirement funds to pay operating expenses. PTL had no reliable internal audits, no checks and balances for financial accountability and often no receipts or other devices for keeping track of incoming and outgoing cash. In the final months of the Bakker...
...laws of the land and those of God (Which some still think are one and the same). Then, people followed a strict, traditional morality which was taught in the class room as well as at home. This philosophy-reflected in education and politics through attempts to restore school prayer, and through Ollie North's repeated invocation of God--has produced the many speeches and writings by Bennett and fellow conservatives arguing for the restoration of morality to the nation's campuses...