was fatally shot at the ninth street baptist church in kentucky in november of 2008. people who attempt add funeral for a woman with relatives in his congregation and grief turned to fear as the gunman opened fire in the church. july, 2008, an usher and guest were shot and killed during the opened act of a children's play in knoxville, tennessee. the gunman walked into the sanctuary carrying a guitar case with a 12-gauge shotgun. he's said to have fired over 40 shots. killing two and injuring seven. in may, 2006, five family members killed by a gunman who opened fire during a church service in baton rouge, louisiana. the whole family was wiped out and the shooter's wife was abducted from the church and killed nearby. one of the most upsetting in recent memory started in 1999 when a lone gunman massacred seven worshipers and wounded seven others at a youth celebration. 150 teenagers that were all taking place in the sanctuary of the wedgwood baptist church in fort worth, texas. 150 teenagers. the assault was one of the worst ever and i know there was a trem sense of lo

john the baptist church emerged softly reciting prayers. a group bearing a, and decorative but they really fell into line after him. a choir came out then singing the holy god prayer followed by a dozen workers. each carried a pillow with six medals and honors earned by the deceased during an extraordinary life. other church elders and dignitaries followed next. at last cacophony merge and draped in some fabric made of gold and brocade and raspberry velvet -- it was the second day of december and elegant tribute was not for is our or a high-ranking minister or the military chief. the man inside the long open a box was pyotr smirnov, arguably the most famous bottom maker in the world. so most of the information from that passage came from the newspapers that covered it smirnov's it funeral and when i read about that i don't buy you but i was pretty amazed to them in such a fuss out of a vodka maker so i really made it my mission to find out why. and i think you'll find it hopefully as fascinating as i did. one of the things about smirnov was

spilling out into the street leading to saint john the baptist church. the crush was so dense that movement became almost impossible. horse dawn transit usually seesawed through the senator were forced to stop running, as long lines of mourning carriages around the block at 9 a.m. the bell rang out snapping the masses to attention. all eyes turned toward eight majestic funeral chariot outfitted with a canopy of rich silver brocade. it was part before the grandest residence on the block, a three-story high mansion that was a testament to the architectural beauty cropping up all over russia. the heavy wooden doors parted in the archdeacon from saint john the baptist church emerged, softly reciting prayers. a group carrying a coffin decorated with a read a unnatural flowers fell into line after him. a choir came out and followed by a dozen workers. each carried a pillow with sacred medals and honors earned by the deceased during an extraordinary life. other church elders and dignitaries followed next. at last, a coffin emerged great in fabric made of golden

i do not care if he is a muslim or a baptist or a catholic. whatever. we all were shipped in different ways. there is only one god. that god is jesus christ. he is trying to gather people -- he is trying to make people come together so we can try to make peace with each other. he has accepted him. let god do his part. we will do our part. guest: i think she is saying correctly that the president is trying to transcend these rifts. the problem is in the middle east, in the name of god, there has been terrorism, violent extremism. that has been part of the problem. what the president was trying to invoke was the idea that the killing of innocent people is never justified. i think it was a message of uplift. it was a message of trying to use religion for peaceful purposes. host: is democracy viable for the middle east? guest: every country moves at its own pace. i think the president's approach by focusing on institution- building is the long-term approach. if we only define democracy as an election tomorrow morning, we will encounter surprises. the only p

i think even some catholic friends, baptist friends, people who are not just anti-islam but prowomen'sty and who see women's equality as something that is a consistent part of their religious beliefs even though they would admit their tradition has to be criticized for playing a role in the past, in the continuous oppression of women. so, i suppose, really the choice is between an evolutionary and a revolutionary view of religion. do we want to see religion as something where we can pull good things out of it into the future or do we want to see it as something we eradicate in the revolution because nothing could become of it. i guess at least i'm persuaded that the answer has to be the revolutionary answer in that particular case. ..

low-level bureaucrats who had no real choice, if they wanted to advance they have to be member of the baptistparty. to ban them also, again, just created hundreds of thousands of unemployed folks who know also were very hostile to the united states and were sympathetic to the insurgency. those with three big problems, those three bad decisions on the part of the previous administration, and specifically paul bremmer, really help shape what was then going to happen. and of course now we are in the longest military engagement in our history. and although things have finally started to show some improvement on the ground, when you read this book, fiasco, you realize that we made some different decisions, frankly, the outcomes might have been much more positive and we might not have lost as many american lives. iraq may not have lost as many iraqi lives in the ensuing seven or eight years. >> to see more summer reading list and other program information, visit our website at tv.org. >> richard brookhiser wrote his first article for the new republic at the age of 14. and was hired as the magazine

explanation that has been given for w why t acted as he did, is he did it because he was a religious baptist day and christian science is the belief in biblical process of -- prophecies to the return of the jews to the ancient homeland. president truman never officially use religion as a reason to support the creation of a jewish state but it manifest itself both before he became president and after he recognized israel. truman claimed to have read the bible at least a dozen times before he was 15 and he looked to it for inspiration and guidance as an adult progress is senator, truman along with his congressional colleagues joined the mayor can it/palestine committee that later changed its name to the american christian palestine committee, the christian zionist organization supporting the creation of a jewish national home and palestine by think we can conclude that the very least truman's religious training and familiarity with the old testament gave him a sense of the appropriateness of the jewish return to palestine. lastly, there is the eddie jacobson theory. i can tell you how many peo

believe in cloth diapers, breast-feeding baby, etc., in exactly the same way southern babb p bah baptists believe as the bible is the word of god. it is inarguable that certitude does not tolerate dissent. it responds to it with fury. those of us whose parenting style can be described as a series of reflexes, instincts and minute by minute adjustments rather than a philosophy are less invested in our own practices. what we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. what we need to remember is there is no need to apologize for that even when confronted with the most red-faced outrage. it's also important to acknowledge that the impulse to tsk has probably been indulged at one time or another by all of us. i remember grocery shopping once not long after my oldest child had been diagnosed with mercury poisoning when i saw a pregnant woman tossing a few cans of tuna into her cart. the words, you really shouldn't, were repeated more than once. only when i finally noticed she was side lg away down the aisle did it dawn on me i had no business giving a lecture to a total st

underdog on top and it would make no difference whether his name is russian, vjewish, negro, mormon, baptisti found very jews remember their past condition when prosperity comes. so in light of that, what do you -- what are we to make of truman's innermost attitudes? is there a conclusion that can be drawn? >> yeah, i think people have was an anti-semite who really didn't care about the jews and came out with statements like that. but i think you can kind of see it as an arc. he came into office being very sympathetic. he ran head into the state de8urj resistance. then there was tremendous amounts of pressure on him by the american public and especially by the organized american jewish public. led by silver who did put tremendous pressure on him and this is really how he reacted and his aids would even say that when truman was under undue pressure he would explode and make statements like that but they didn't really believe that was what he was really feeling or thinking. and those statements kind of present him as a victim and i think that's how he saw himself. that he felt, i've tried to g

he was a baptist. he was a mason. he'd been a farmer. so in 1922, he was elected judge. twelve years later in 1934 they were looking for a good candidate to run for united states senate and again, harry fits the bill and again, he gets elected. ten years later in chicago at the 1944 democratic national convention, party bosses are looking for someone to replace henry wallace on the ticket. henry wallace was roosevelt's vice president at the time. talk about a book. henry wallace was a genius, probably one of the smartest men to ever hold national elected office in the united states. he was a plant geneticist by training. dabbled in astrology and metaphysics and was extremely liberal and a little weird and the party bosses in '44 thought we need to replace him and so they did. all the candidates were either too liberal or too conservative so truman got picked. reporters joked it was another missouri compromise. [laughter] >> we all know what happened on april 12th, 1945, franklin roosevelt died and harry s. truman became president. he had been vice president just 82 days

and we were very conservative baptist family. but i saw not in my sister because my sister was doing wonderfully and has done wonderfully, but in all of her friends. some of them getting knocked out by drugs, some of them getting knocked up, getting pregnant, just to the chaos. and i was six years under then my sister. i saw everything through my parents size. i saw them looking out the window even in atlanta, georgia looking at kids who have been voiced as three years earlier suddenly with here down to their backs and ripped up close and them being horrified and i saw it through them. in -- my 21 year old son drinks beer and will go out and have dinner and everything, and order a beer and i will still be ordering ice-t and i say why did you ever drink beer and i said i don't know. i just associated -- it has nothing to do by the way with me thinking that you're is evil, i am very as you probably know him very open-minded. im more conservative politically than i am personally. and i just think that there was such a reaction again

my question is i work a lot with, specifically the baptist church at methodist church and politics, and one of the trends i am noticing is a push towards their saying that in politics, especially in the conservative movement, there is so much talk, they're wanting to go to we will just do this action and we don't have to worry about politics, how can we explain to people who have that view that talking gets you nowhere, we need to work with people, our voices are still very important because i agree with you that our voices are powerful, how can we talk with them and tell them if you shut up, no matter what work you are going to do, there are going to be people making it harder and harder. >> excellent point. excellent point. i am doing a lot of thinking about that recently because as i speak to young people, you have to start speaking out. people across the country have to start speaking out. when they start talking about issues, in several races, peter king, the new york congressman who tends to be a moderate republican, was totally opposed to the immigration reform, my position of re

you must be one of the baptists from tennessee, sitting in the back row until time for him to come forward, but dr. jones is an epidemiologist with the department of health in our great state. does a wonderful job for our state and i'm absolutely delighted we're going to be able to hear from him today on the second panel so dr. jones thank you for taking the time to tom. while the draft legislation before us attempts to improve the safety and efficacy of the nation's food supply it appears a there is still a lot of room for improvement in am appreciative that we're having the hearing and i am hopeful that we are going to be able to work in a bipartisan way on this issue. i appreciate the majority's attempt to improve the food safety system, but i think that we all know especially those of us who are mothers, we know that you can't inspect your way to food safety. we know that this legislation is going to have to do more than be reactive. this legislation broadly increases the speed to authority to make it one of the largest federal agencies in the existence. my concern is the growth of bur

have to understand from his perspective, he believes he has been chosen like allah, to be john the baptist, to prepare the way for the coming of the islamic messiah and nothing is going to stop him short of a miracle of god and that is what we need to be praying four, a miracle of god. that is the radicals. now the reformers i go into an entire section in the book. these are muslims but they say yes, yes, islam is the answer but violence, jihad, holy war is not the way. they say we need more freedom, we need more openness, we need to protect human rights, civil-rights. we even need democracy. i go into the book and it is really interesting. i'm not going to spend a lot of time here because i want to talk about the third movement, the revivalist but you should note for example that the grandson of the ayatollah khamenei several years ago came to washington d.c. and gave a speech that received almost no media coverage but i quote get in the book because he renounced his grandfathers' revolution. he said the islamic revolution was eating the children of iran and he called for america to overt

states -- your imams here to the united states but the condition is we're going to send you some baptist ministers and catholic priests. i yield to the gentleman. . mr. carter: i agree with you. that would be the kind of world we would create. that's what americans give to others. it's not the world of those we fight against. the war we fight against is an autocratic world which is their way or the highway. i get tired of hearing people say, we got to close gitmo because it is the target for creating more terrorists. so, let's see. what do you think is going to be the target if we take everybody out of gitmo and put them in levenworth. the next year, guess what, it's going to be levenworth. and now we're going to close levenworth. and they could cause them to go to the terrorist side and send them to el paso. and then in a year, that will be the evil gitmo. and then they will end up in a county jail. until they are back home on the terrorist battlefield, they will recruit based upon that holding facility. it's a ridiculous argument saying you have to close guantanamo because it becomes a

from the southern baptist convention to the islamic society of north america. it's supported by the american lung association, the american heart association, the american cancer society, the groups that are best situated to understand the damage caused by tobacco and to recognize that a renewed f.d.a. can and must take on this new authority. the diversity of support for this bill shows just how critical it is to all americans. tobacco does not discriminate when it robs people of their health, their productivity and their lives. and that's why we must come together to rob tobacco of its fluence -- influence over americans. finally, i want to note this bill has a number of changes to respond to specific concerns that we've heard. in committee consideration of this bill over the past two years we made changes to ensure fairness and flexibility for convenience stores, tobacco growers and small manufacturers. we worked with the -- our republican colleagues to incorporate their suggestions. we worked with members of the congressional black caucus to ensure that ment