Undercover Ethics: An Atheist Infiltrates the Church

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/23/Land_of_the_Believers_Evangelical_America

Author Gina Welch reflects on the ethical dilemmas of lying to the members of Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church for her book In the Land of Believers. Welch describes struggling with what she came to view as "taking the private world of their church and turning it out to the public."

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Gina Welch talks about In the Land of the Believers: A Journey to the Heart of Evangelical America. Welch, a young secular Jew from Berkeley, joined Jerry Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church. Over the course of nearly two years, Welch immersed herself in the life of the devout: she learned to interpret the world like an evangelical. - Book Passage

Gina Welch, a 2001 graduate of Yale University, teaches creative writing at George Washington University. She has also taught writing at the University of Virginia, American University, UVA Young Writer Workshop, and WriterHouse in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Her writing has previously appeared in Meridian, Time Out New York, and Playboy.

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[ralax3]

She's beautiful.

[MegaAstrodude]

@MidwayJournal,

The Bible says David was righteous in all things except those concerning Bathsheba and Uriah the Hittite.

In 1 Samuel 21, David lies about being on the king's business and about being insane(verses 2-8 and verses 12-13). The argument that David wasn't lying because he was to become King of Israel is bunk because lying is the act of making a statement that is intended to convey an idea that is false.

Hence, the Bible clearly sanctions lying and even commands it!

[MasterAdam100]

@1crommy You are lieing ab out Darwin. He even pointed out how the eye evolved.

[1crommy]

i pray for all you unbeleivers that you will one day find the lord and repent before it is to late, even darwin said ithe idea the eye could evolve is absurd

[timmyjunior1]

@BrutusBlackest I refuse, religion is evil, illogical, and must stop. I don't persecute people nor would I ever resort to violence but it has got to stop.

[ignacio1200]

@VenomProductions1 well yes , open your eyes my man!

[HangProgressives]

HEY! Can you commie progressives hear that whirling sound? That is the sound of dem union slush funds going down the toilet ....bye bye ENDGAME!

WALKER FOR PRESIDENT 2012

[VenomProductions1]

I am Christian so that makes me dumb. cool....

[benaberry]

Faith is a none statement. Belief wihout question makes no sence. Faith does not equal peace, getting off one's bottom and doing something is what it takes , not faith.

[truvelocity]

@MidwayJournal Christianity has become a way of life just as Judaism has and many other beliefs are a way of life. Its called culture or sub-cultures within a society when many ways of life are lived from different religions under one nation. However, I stand by what I said in the first place, because the assertion or interpretation of a scripture is not based on reality. Its is a story and that's it.