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Born May 18, 1953; got saved at Truett Memorial BC in Hayesville, NC 1959. On rigged ballot which I did not rig got Most Intellectual class of 71, Gaffney High School. Furman Grad, Sociology major but it was little tougher than Auburn football players had Had three dates with beautiful women the summer of 1978. Did not marry any of em. Never married anybody cause what was available was undesirable and what was desirable was unaffordable. Unlucky in love as they say and even still it is sometimes heartbreaking. Had a Pakistani Jr. Davis Cupper on the Ropes the summer of 84, City Courts, Rome Georgia I've a baby sitter, watched peoples homes while they were away on Vacation. Freelance writer, local consultant, screenwriter, and the best damn substitute teacher of Floyd County Georgia in mid 80's according to an anonymous kid passed me on main street a few years later when I went back to get a sandwich at Schroeders. Had some good moments in Collinsville as well. Ask Casey Mattox at www.clsnet.org if he will be honest about it. I try my best to make it to Bridges BBQ in Shelby NC at least four times a year.

Monday, November 25, 2019

A Venal Nexus, Franklin Graham, Eric Metaxas and FBC Spartanburg South Carolina

   This is a scattershot blog. I was raised in Gaffney about Twenty miles East of Spartanburg South Carolina and its First Baptist Church. It is where Trey Gowdy shared a membership with Billy Graham for about twenty years; and for a while one of my facebook friends, Ginny Dent Brant, Daughter of Harry Dent, Nixon's Southern Strategist.

     About five years ago Eric Metaxas was a key speaker of FBC Sburg conferences Truth for a New Generation in conjunction with North Greenville College which could pass as a satellite campus of Liberty University.

     Franklin Graham and his son Will have a close working relationship with FBC Spartanburg.

    Long story short Marty Cohen's new Book on a Moral Congress puts in full relief how Christ Church Episcopalians in Greenville are complicit in the fundamentalism and it Trump base politics all in the shadow of Furman and Wofford, what passes for Enlightened Baptists and Methodists in Upstate SC.

   I am a graduate of Furman, and Baxter Wynn is a trustee there. Baxter is the nephew of Lester Maddox and the brother of Barry Wynn, recent Chair of the SC GOP.

    So here is an open invitation to Baxter and Baptists who should know better in the Upstate to listen online to On the Media of NPR yesterday.

    And take a deep dive into Cohen's book in light of the following links
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/to-trumps-evangelicals-everyone-else-is-a-sinner/602569/

And This Bonhoefferian Moment Metaxas is blaspheming.

   https://baptistnews.com/article/baptists-under-nazism-and-baptists-amid-americas-current-political-crisis-a-call-to-disruption/#.XdxTT2cQWUk



 
   

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