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Even more precise would be to specify that there is nothing wrong with being a Christian. Christians are:
Catholics, Episcopalins, Presbyterians, Methodists, Church of Christ, Baptists and many others who are perfectly respectable people.
If folks want to speak in tongues, worship without music, or handle snakes, I don't really care. That is their business and not mine. When they are minding their business, I am perfectly content to allow them to do it as long as they don't start trying to mind mine.
What we have to beware of are those End Times domininists who would try to not only trample upon the individual rights of the rest of us, but who, given power, would send us to war in the Middle East to provoke wars that they claim are prophecy in Revelations that must be fulfilled. They believe that Jerusalem must be entirely in the hands of the Jews for the Rapture to come.
In the their own churches, muttering about sin and hoping to go to Jesus, they present no danger to us. Interfering with public policy in violation of the Wall of Separation, they can be quite dangerous not only to our freedoms in this country but to prospects for peace in the world at large.
