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Eli knew even less about Christian churches than he did about synagogues. He couldn’t remember the last time he’d been inside of either. It must have been for some wedding or funeral. He knew that there were Catholics and Baptists. He seemed to remember that the Catholic iconography showed Christ on the cross but the Baptist’s cross was bare – he didn’t know why. President Jimmy Carter was a Baptist, he thought. There were conservatives called Fundamentalists, and Eli didn’t know if they were a different group, but it seemed they were all over the news these days, raising their voices against abortion, gay rights, and the theory of evolution. Involvement in politics by these conservative whites in America seemed to be a fairly new thing, whereas Catholics had been steeped in politics f
