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Now Baldwin has released a memoir, "The Unusual Suspect," a reference to the one critically acclaimed film for which he's known.
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The book, the "Gospel according to Stevie B.," is part testimonial and part evangelical manifesto, a cocktail of anti-intellectualism and a biblical interpretation that would have Jesus spinning in his grave, had he stayed there.
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Isn't that a cosmopolitan?
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Baldwin preaches that free will is a lie of Satan -- we must shut off our brains, he says, and be led by what God tells our hearts.
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No shit. It's, like, so obvious, y'know?
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Furthermore, he writes, efforts to end global poverty and violence are just the sort of "stupid arrogance" that incur God's wrath
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Um, then should ye not be smote as well, dear Stevie B? I mean, your book's nothing but stupid arrogance.
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"God has called me to go and make disciples of the youth of America. That is what I am going to try to do, and if you try to stop me I am going to break your face."
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This don't sound too Christian to me.