Religion: The Southern Baptists

There ought to be but three Christian denominations in the world,'' an Episcopal bishop once said. 'The Roman Catholics standing on one side for the authority of the church, and the Baptists standing on the other side for the authority of the Bible. The other denominations should be united, for the difference between them is that between Tweedledum and Tweedledee." Seldom have U.S. Catholics and Baptists, particularly Southern Baptists, been ranged so clearly against each other as on the 1960 issue of a Catholic President.

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