#southernbaptists — Public Fediverse posts

started two more #wikipedia articles: Toma Hanlon (c1867-1929) was an American #vaudeville singer, actress, and #comedian known for her male characters: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toma_Hanlon Una Roberts Lawrence (1893-1972) was a writer/editor/educator with the @southernbapcon : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Una_Roberts_Lawrence @wikiwomeninred #SouthernBaptists

@karaswisher ‘Predator’?! Hardly. #Trump is going to portray #GhislaineMaxwell as a #MAGA ‘Saint’, second only to himself!

Why? He knows that more evidence of his #pedophilia will come out, and that the #midterms are coming. So he’s desperately trying to add to his cult base the #pedophile vote of #Mormons and #SouthernBaptists. 🤷🏻‍♂️

#Resist the #weirdos in #USpol.

"Black women holding the two highest offices in the [American Baptist Churches USA] denomination shows that American Baptists still read the Bible differently than Southern Baptists.

Yet, even though Southern Baptists are fewer than half of all Baptists in the U.S., you’d never guess that by the news coverage."

#Baptists #evangelicals #SouthernBaptists #bible #women #race
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"Although the Civil War officially ended the issue of slavery, the differences among Christians as represented by the North-South split among Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterians in the 19th century haven’t gone away. American and Southern Baptists still read the Bible differently."

~ Brian Kaylor

#Baptists #evangelicals #SouthernBaptists #bible
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https://publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/american-baptists-confront-past-and

#TheGoodLiars At The #SouthernBaptistConvention

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67McjfTTMOs

The #GoodLiars talk to #SouthernBaptists about their opposition to #gaymarriage, their opposition to #women being #pastors, and their opposition to P*** PLUS find out what happens when you die!

#sundayschool #atheist #christianity #bigots

@samlitzinger

"'willful childlessness'"

So, about that

Shouldn't someone be talking to #JDVance?

Last time I saw his family, his wife had only popped out three arrows for their #Quiverfull

Maybe some of these #SouthernBaptists should tell him to get on it...

...as it were

Is he slacking, or just gone all limp?

#PopeDonald #Catholic #catholicism
#Religion

I think we know which religion #KingDonald #Trump chose for his second term in office.

Now it's 67 million catholics verse every other religion in the #USA. I hope you're not the wrong brand of #Christian ... here's looking at you #SouthernBaptists and others.

@bloodravenlib The #SouthernBaptists are among the worst. When I was a small child my mother let an acquaintence take me to one of their evening services, mind you I had not asked to go but I guess she thought it would be good for me, and this was before I had even started kindergarten.

Well, the preacher gave what I guess is a typical Southern Baptist fire and brimstone sermon with a VERY graphic and horrifying description of #Hell and all the tortures that would be experienced there (all entirely made up, of course). I don't remember if there were any other small children there but I know it absolutely terrified me and I could not get out of that place fast enough. Cried all the way home, had nightmares for months, and I don't think my mother had anything to do with that church or that acquaintence ever again, but the damage had been done.

The kicker, of course is that even IF you believe the #Bible is more than just a book of fables, if you know anything about the original languages you know that there are three or four very different word with completely different meanings that were all translated into the single English word hell (this is one reason the #KingJamesBible only types hate other versions of the bible - some of them have the temerity to actually use different words in place of "Hell" that more closely match the original meanings of the words in the original languages). Anyway, human beings do not go to the fire-and-brimstone hell of the Southern Baptist theology (well, maybe Southern Baptists do, but not the rest of us 😆​). There is a very dated (especially the cultural references, there are Coors trucks everywhere in the USA now!) and somewhat comical treatment of this at https://web.archive.org/web/20010516175107/http://www.godstruthfortoday.org/Library/priddy/ibi_4_2.htm - remember this was written by a Christian, but apparently one that wasn't afraid to expose one of the biggest lies taught by #fundamentalists. But the fear of Hell is one of the ways lying preachers exert control over the sheep, even if they terrify little kids (and probably a few adults) with their lies.

I imagine they don't like women pastors in part because many women would not be able to terrify little kids like that and still sleep at night! But despicable #UNholy men seem to have no problem doing that!

"It started two years before Pressler, then a Texas appeals court judge, and Paige Patterson, then an academician, launched the 'conservative resurgence' that allowed fundamentalists to take control of the SBC."

That "conservative resurgence" firmly aligned the SBC with the Republican party and made the SBC a religious arm of the GOP during years in which the GOP and SBC have attacked LGBTQ people and their rights in every way possible.

#PaulPressler #SouthernBaptists #SexualAbuse
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"That’s long enough to expose the Southern Baptist Convention’s most malevolent hypocrite to the shame of his reported double life.

Just before the end of the year, the SBC reached a settlement in a lawsuit that claimed Pressler began raping a teenage boy in Houston in 1977 and continued the sexual abuse across decades."

#PaulPressler #SouthernBaptists #SexualAbuse
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Here's how Marv Knox opens his response to the news that the Southern Baptist Convention has settled a lawsuit re: allegations that SBC kingmaker Paul Pressler sexually abused a teenaged boy (at least seven more men have also alleged abuse by Pressler):

"Thank God, Paul Pressler has lived to the ripe old age of 93."

#PaulPressler #SouthernBaptists #SexualAbuse
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https://baptistnews.com/article/what-the-sbc-should-do-about-its-most-famous-accused-sexual-abuser/

Bigoted religion dumps on women leaders. Who would have guessed?

Pastor blames 'power-hungry men' after U.S. Baptist group ousts churches with female leaders | CBC Radio
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/southern-baptist-convention-women-pastors-1.6876357 #religion #southernbaptists #baptists #christianity

Georgia pastor Mike Stone, running for the presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention, says the church he pastors is the "strictest of the strict complementarians," and he wants this for the whole SBC.

Translation: I promote the dominance of heterosexual males like me over everyone else in the world, especially women and LGBTQ people. And I'm all about pretending that this is how God sees things, too,

#SouthernBaptists #complementarity #MaleEntitlement

https://baptistnews.com/article/sbc-presidential-candidate-describes-his-church-as-the-strictest-of-the-strict-complementarians/

Also central to this hard-right turn of the SBC was the insistence that gay people were a threat to the moral foundations of America and should be denied rights at every turn. SBC churches have become a religious arm of the Republican power, working to elect Republicans who attack LGBTQ human beings.

And now we learn more about Paul Pressler's story.

#SouthernBaptists #PaulPressler #SexualAbuse #homophobia
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Why does this matter? Pressler was a key architect of the hard-right turn the Southern Baptist Convention took in 1979, weeding out seminary professors who did not adhere to hard-right doctrines of biblical literalism and to beliefs that women should be excluded from ministry and were to subordinate themselves to men.

#SouthernBaptists #PaulPressler #Houston #SexualAbuse #homophobia
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"Journalist Robert Downen, writing for the Tribune, also reports Pressler’s law partner — a prominent conservative Republican known for his anti-LGBTQ stances — knew about the serious allegations yet continued to work with Pressler for another decade and provide him young male 'personal assistants, most of them young men who typically worked out of his River Oaks mansion. Two have accused Pressler of sexual assault or misconduct.'”

#SouthernBaptists #PaulPressler #SexualAbuse #homophobia
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Mark Wingfield reports,

"Leaders of First Baptist Church of Houston knew about Paul Pressler’s alleged inappropriate sexual activity with young men in 2004, according to correspondence from the church to Pressler obtained by the Texas Tribune."

#SouthernBaptists #PaulPressler #Houston #SexualAbuse #homophobia
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https://baptistnews.com/article/new-court-documents-show-first-baptist-houston-leaders-knew-of-allegations-against-pressler-in-2004/

"Mohler and Sanders are outraged. Their ethos is built around shock and outrage by programmatically attacking people with little status in the culture. Members of the outrage insiders group look for 'flashpoints' where they can manufacture outrage. …

These days, it seems the Republican/evangelical outrage machine delivers anger and hatred daily."

#SarahHuckabeeSanders #AlMohler #SouthernBaptists #evangelicals

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Rodney Kennedy writes,

"Al Mohler [president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary] wants us to believe there was devil worship at the Grammys last Sunday. Two days later, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders painted a dark and dismal picture of an American democracy being destroyed by Democrats who sound suspiciously like devils."

#SarahHuckabeeSanders #AlMohler #SouthernBaptists

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https://baptistnews.com/article/the-gospel-of-fear-as-told-by-al-mohler-and-sarah-huckabee-sanders/