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.

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    Remember also the slavers gave slaves a different Bible than the slavers had, so slaves wouldn’t get ideas.

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      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

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        Every time the Bible was translated, it was with unintentional errors and the political slant of the current ruler.