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The Baptist Standard :: The Newsmagazine of Texas Baptists: "Fundamentalism divides
Christians, Carter tells Baptists

By Ken Camp

Managing Editor

BIRMINGHAM, England--Fundamentalism characterized by rigidity, domination and exclusion--practiced primarily by authoritarian males--divides Christians by adding restrictive requirements to the simple gospel message, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter told delegates to the Baptist World Centenary Congress.

'Divisions in the river of faith that divide us into swirling eddies and meandering tributaries' constitute the most serious plight currently facing the church, he said."