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QUINTON E. BAKER:

Yes, well, you know, let's think about this. A lot of people talk about eleven o'clock on Sunday morning being the most segregated hour. Let's look at what is not segregated at eleven o'clock on Sunday morning. It's the fundamentalist and the religious right. They have the greatest mix, why is that? It's not, I am not even so sure that is so much segregation as much as it is a different way of worshipping. The intellectual, intelligentsia of the white community is not going to deal with the emotionalism of black religion.

CHRIS McGINNIS:

I was raised Lutheran and we would have looked down on that stuff whether they were white or black.

QUINTON E. BAKER:

That's right and black people

CHRIS McGINNIS:

We are high church, we are not like them.

QUINTON E. BAKER:

And black people are not going to sit there and be bored. [Laughter] So, if you want to desegregate those hours, you have got to understand, there is a coming together of the religions. And the reasons that I say this is the Chapel Hill Bible Church sat right on the corner of Purefoy Road, right across the street from the Community Church, the Community Church, supposed has this great liberal tradition. Totally, completely white. The Chapel Hill Bible Church, fundamentalists, has all of these various ethnic groups, Chinese, African American, everybody going to this church, because the theology [liturgy, style of worshipping] is closer to what the tradition had been.