By Timothy Michael Short
Meet Tim. A homeschooler from rural Virginia, Tim desires of attending Jerry Falwell's Liberty college and changing into a pastor of his own Church. Indoctrinated in fundamentalist Baptist theology from toddlerhood, Tim is uniquely proficient to achieve his pastoral education. After a few shut encounters with homosexual activists, Jerry Falwell, napalm explosives, the FBI, ATF, Police, nudist missionaries, alcoholic alums, sword wielding Muslim roommates and dying threats from a Kenyan Muslim...Tim received relatively the freedom adventure. Tim, the preacher boy, took these issues in stride but if he used to be challenged to learn The God fable via Richard Dawkins his existence and religion could by no means be a similar.
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