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Baptist congregation that over the years has completely aligned itself with the Southern Baptist Convention. He was bombarding me with email copies of letters to the editor of local and national newspapers, letters to Prime Minister Harper and even letters to the Superior Court and the BC Law Society.
His pet peeves of course are abortion rights, euthanasia rights, and marriage rights.
His gripe with the BC Law Society was due to it's denial of accreditation to a proposed law school at Trinity Western University, an evangelical school which required students to sign a 'heterosexual' abstinence covenant as a condition of enrollment counter to the Charter of Rights.
This from a guy who is 56 years old, has never lived outside his parents house and who last had sex with a woman in 1986 after which he broke up with her because premarital sex was a sin. He has been saving himself for marriage ever since. He hasn't dated any women for longer than three weeks before pronouncing them biblically illiterate because they had opinions that conflicted with his own.
The last straw for me was when he said in order to live biblically he could no longer 'believe' in evolution. He had no education in science and he refused to listen to my counter arguments despite my having a philosophy degree in logic, philosophy of language and science. He dismissed Empiricism out of hand without reading Bacon, Hume or Locke. Read no evil see no evil was his way of dealing with secular ideas.
He was a literate guy who read most of the major Marxist writers including Horkheimer, Adorno, Jameson, Guy Debord, Bloch, Lukacs and others. Unfortunately his Marxist reading were merely to give him a pretext for writing papers decrying secular atheism.
Baptists are as hide bound, dogmatic and misogynist as any Taliban or ISIS lunatic. They hate democracy yet thrive under it's protections.
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