Southern Baptists: Gay rights not same as civil rights

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27. I grew up in one of those, but I was one of the lucky ones. I escaped.

Thinking back through those years, I met one person who embodied what was in the instruction manual, who deeply and personally believed that it meant compassion and care for others, even at the risk of his own safety. Watched him (I think I must have been 10 or 12) walk into a spousal abuse situation and take a woman out from in front of an unhappy drunk that was twice his size (he was a smaller framed man). He left a big multi-million dollar church after they got all political and money-hungry and went to work in downtown Oklahoma City, opened up a food kitchen, visited people in jail. Prayed with them if they wanted, but didn't spend time being a self-righteous asshat like so many I remember.

One guy out of several churches full of people. I'm sure there were more decent people, but no one I ever saw put it into action like he did.

I realized it wasn't the instruction manual that was guiding him. That may have some bearing on my inability to believe in ghosts now.