So, Bush is addressing the annual Southern Baptists meeting on June 15,2004:
http://www.churchcentral.com/nw/s/template/Article.html/id/19567
"The Southern Baptist Convention opened its annual meeting in Indianapolis, June 15, with an address from President Bush. According to Baptist Press, President Bush spoke live via satellite from the White House. He addressed the messengers representing some 16 million members of the second largest Christian denomination in the United States."
These guys have to be the largest religiously intolerant organization in the world - imagine if the Hindus passed out literature at the Church on Christmas Eve saying all Christians are demonic?: http://www.religioustolerance.org/sbc_pray2.htm .
Chandrakant Panse is a co-organizer of New England Hindus Against Religious Intolerance. About 60 people staged a peaceful march on 1999-NOV-21 outside the Beacon Hill Baptist Church on Cambridge Street in Boston, MA. They carried signs: "Respect All Religions" and "Intolerance is Un-American". Ms. Panse said: ''We're asking the Baptists to retract their malicious attacks on the Hindu religion and its people.'' The group was protesting a Hindu prayer guide distributed by the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Some of the statements in the guide are:
- 'Hindus seek power and blessing through the worship of gods and goddesses and the demonic powers that lay behind them."
- "Hindus lack a concept of sin or personal responsibility."
- "...the darkness in their Hindu hearts that no lamp can dispel.''
- '...demonic powers lie behind Hindu gods."
- "...more than 900 million people lost in the hopeless darkness of Hinduism."
- "Walking through the streets of India during Divali is a sobering reminder of the power of darkness that lies over this land."
- "Mumbai [India] is a city of spiritual darkness. Eight out of every 10 people are Hindu, slaves bound by fear and tradition to false gods."
- "Satan has retained his hold on Calcutta through Kali and other gods and goddesses of Hinduism. It's time for Christ's salvation to come to Calcutta."
- Hindus live under ''the power of Satan.''
Who is more "American?" Didn't our founding fathers come to America to get away from religious intolerance?