Southern Baptists

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“You mean they could still be living in a primitive state of neurotic irresponsibility?”
—Terry Southern (b. 1924)

“[T]he Congregational minister in a neighboring town definitely stated that ‘the same spirit which drove the herd of swine into the sea drove the Baptists into the water, and that they were hurried along by the devil until the rite was performed.’”
—For the State of Vermont, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)