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An Atheist Goes Undercover to Join the Flock of Mad Pastor John Hagee

Book excerpt. Long but worth the read.

An Atheist Goes Undercover to Join the Flock of Mad Pastor John Hagee by Matt Taibbi -- Rolling Stone via Alternet

I pulled into the church parking lot a little after 6:00 p.m., at more or less the last possible minute. The previous half hour or so I'd spent dawdling in my car outside a Goodwill department store off Route 410 in San Antonio, clinging to some inane sports talk show piping over my car radio -- anything to hold off my plunge into Religion.

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I had been attending the Cornerstone Church for weeks, but this was really my first day of school. I had joined Cornerstone -- a megachurch in the Texas Hill Country -- to get a look inside the evangelical mind-set that gave the country eight years of George W. Bush.

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I dispute the conventional wisdom of the emphasized bit (I contend it was "swing voters" and the war issue), but that has no bearing on the peek inside Cornerstone Church.

Enjoy! 


Also, tip of the hat to The Atheist Jew


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