This must be in-your-face month on the faith front. First, Brit Hume takes on Tiger Woods' soul. Now, folks at the top of the Southern Baptist Convention are riled up over a direct frontal recruitment campaign from Scientology in the SBC's hometown.
As Baptist Press tells the story, the Church of Scientology is running its "free personality test" today in The Tennessean. This is the paper for Nashville, headquarters city for the SBC, the nation's largest Protestant denomination and among the most conservative evangelical faiths.
The 200-question Scientology quiz, also available on the controversial religion's website, leads to a personal assessment and confidential meet-up with a Scientology expert.
Tal Davis, of the North American Mission Board, the outreach arm of the SBC, tells Baptist Press that the quiz...
... is sort of a 'bait and switch' method. They ask people to take the free test, then use it to tell them that Scientology can help them overcome the problems that the test supposedly revealed. It is a tool simply to get people to buy into the strange, unscientific and unchristian system designed by L. Ron Hubbard. I would recommend that Christians stay away from it."
