Episcopalians: Giving the Rib a Ribbing

God created the world in six days.

Eve was made out of Adam's rib. Literal acceptance of such Biblical statements is the hallmark of fundamentalism, and south Georgia is a stronghold of it. Last week twelve Episcopal bishops from as far away as Montana launched a "Bishops' Crusade for Christ" in south Georgia, attacking "anthropoid religion," as H. L. Mencken used to call it.

In what the Rt. Rev. Albert Rhett Stuart, Episcopal Bishop of Georgia, said was only the beginning of a year long evangelizing drive, each of the bishops preached in one of twelve towns of the diocese of...

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