The membership of Day's church comprised one-third of Bentley's population, with nearly 300 people. Religious sentiment in Bentley was so parochial that kids from the Bentley Christian Centre weren't allowed to play sports with children from outside the parish. The intense religious dynamic sometimes exploded. Local doctor Bill McKendrich claims he was driven out of Bentley in 1978 by the Bentley Christian Centre because church leaders wanted their own doctor. If you don't belong to the church, you don't belong to the community.
People feel strongly.
The mechanic of hate Just as the Bentley region had more faith than it sometimes knew what to do with, it certainly saw more neo-Nazis than most sleepy rural towns. After unsuccessful appeals to win back his job, Keegstra wound up in criminal court in 1984, charged with a federal hate crime. Green was also a formidable scholar and fundamentalist in his own right. He said, So be it. So that's how we got so close.