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.
Remember, folks, the reason the SBC split from mainline baptists was because of slavery.
The northern Baptist’s were opposed to slavery and southern baptists saw slave owners as “missionaries”. That is, people whose job is to “proselytize” the Baptist leadership at the time was dominated by the north and rejected slave owners as missionaries, and so the asshole southerners split off. Cuz they didn’t want to give up their slaves.
So fuck the SBC in particular.
I mentioned above that I grew up Southern Baptist (not only as a church member, but also educated from preschool through high school at a Southern Baptist school; also attended two undergraduate schools with SBC roots) and guess what? They NEVER taught us this history. Wasn’t until I started paying attention to things that I began to really wonder why the “Southern” was in our name…
Remember also the slavers gave slaves a different Bible than the slavers had, so slaves wouldn’t get ideas.
To be clear, they removed some things from the Bible that might promote ideas like freedom and liberty.
I don’t believe they added or changed anything (beyond typical translation issues). Because they didn’t really have to, did they? The Bible basically contains an instruction manual for raping and beating your slaves
Every time the Bible was translated, it was with unintentional errors and the political slant of the current ruler.
I spent a lot of time in SBC. 2026, they will not perform an interracial marriage for their congregation.
They are the cells of MAGA. Fuck them and I hope hell is real just for them.
The kingdom is within. It’s because they are in hell and too afraid to face their own demons that they inflict hell on others. They project their sins (demons) on others because they are too fragile, it’s too painful to look deeply and honestly at self, as do most of the rest of us, to greater or lesser degrees. That’s why the Great Merkavist, Magician, Healer, Almighty said to bless those who curse you and pray for those who persecute you. And why, as he hung on the cross, in the death throes of the most brutal torture imaginable, his torturers told him to heal himself. We don’t see our own shadows, but in someone else, until we get super honest, and, as AA says, take a fearless and searching moral inventory of ourselves. Because as long as our gaze is outward, we’re not bothered by the occasional inward accidental glimpse.