You know, the Southern Baptist denomination was specifically formed in 1845 to uphold slavery — their whole raison d’etre was to separate themselves from those namby-pamby abolitionists who would later kick their asses in the Civil War. That’s not their only issue, though. They also don’t like those uppity women.
Thousands of Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, sending a clear message that men alone should preach to these conservative evangelical congregations.
The amendment would tighten existing restrictions in the Southern Baptist Convention, which already has a faith statement opposing women pastors.
Can you guess what their position on abortion might be? Or on same sex marriage.
Basically, a good rule of thumb for living a moral life is to ask a Southern Baptist their opinion, and then do the exact opposite.
Rename them the Southern Taliban.
A woman joining the Southern Baptists is like a chicken joining the Colonel Sanders restaurant corporation.
At least the Southern Baptists are following the nonavian dinosaurs into extinction.
They’ve been losing members for decades now.
They lost 390,000 members last year.
This loss is happening even though the US population is increasing.
It is a slow process but they are becoming more and more irrelevant.
White Southern Baptists have always been the most consistently racist, pro-slavery, and anti-progress of nearly all the “mainstream” Christian denominations in the USA — and they’re also the loudest and most dominant voice in our religious dialogue, whether or not they represent a majority of US Christians.
Plenty of other “mainstream” denominations are much more progressive and decent than the Southern Baptists, but when was the last time any of them took a full-throated effective public stand against the relentless hate and bigotry of our far-right churches? This says a LOT about the state of Christianity in America, and it’s not flattering at all.
PS @seversky: Perhaps a better name would be Trump Christianity.
@ ^ Raging Bee : Trumpism.
@7 Trumpology
@Raven, I don’t know why “nonavian dinosaurs” always makes me so giddy. (Perhaps its because of a life long love of dinosaurs and the knowledge that they still exist, and I currently have 2 as pets :P ).
Sorry for the derail, back to the regularly scheduled Southern Baptist bashing :D
I watched a fascinating interview with an academic who called the current US form of Christian nationalism “Imperial Christianity”, as in the Roman Empire. It’s very much a political tool more than anything else.
As Christianity warped Judaism and chanegd its rules so Trumpism wars and changes the rules of Xnity -so very, very much for the worst.
@ killyosaur : Dinosaurs rock.
I mean literally they fosils now but also metaphorically the most awesome animals our planet has seen in so many superlative respects. I love ém too. The non -avian ones especially altho’ their avian ones still around, pretty awesome too.
@ 10 ^warps not wars.
Altho’ will probly resultl in wars too.
I guess already has whilst their senile orange idol technically still lives.
I really feel we need another word for Christian. Christian implies they follow the teachings of their Christ and also puts them in the same category as people like Jimmy Carter.
I feel christianist fits better. Small c and ist or ism suffix.
And most of them are National christianist which can be shortened to Nat c’s.
@seversky #1: I’ve always been fond of the name “Yall’iban”