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1.07.2006
The Baptists Listen To Me
Six years ago I wrote this: "The Southern Baptist Convention desperately needs someone in charge of public relations who will simply tell the powers at be to shut up. Every time they have their annual meeting in June, they always take a position on an issue that gets them beaten to death in the press. Sometimes it is women submitting to husbands, sometimes its women and the clergy. You're free to believe whatever you wish, but do you have to grab hold of a lightening rod every time you meet?"
Well, they took my advice. At least to the extent of trying to project a different image.
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damn babptists. lol
That's fine Babpist propoganda. But you only need to listen to their preachers who are damning this and damning that and promising all non-Babptist with eternal damnation for everything they do. Take a break, guys. Take care of your own business before trying to manipulate the rest of us.
The Southern Baptists have done great good in this world. Why not applaud them for those things?
There is not any organized religious group without faults.
And can we learn to spell BAPTIST!
Gosh, no kidding, last anon....what's with the difficulties in spelling "Baptist" properly??
mine was a typo
the second guy must have copied me or something.
You may be the first person that huge bureaucracy has ever listened to. Please keep talking.
I don't care how you spell it, the Baptist's seem very narrow minded. Their approach to religion doesn't match mine.
..if Barry wants the Southern Baptist Convention to really listen to him, a good place to start is in his own church.
..hope I'm there when he speaks.
:)
So many organized Christian groups are getting away from denominational labels, but still seem pretty Baptist in theology and worship style.
That's very interesting!
I just know that I'll never forget one Sunday in my childhood Baptist church:
One guy--who was always lauded as a good example--got up and through drama-filled tears, "confessed" to infidelity and apologized to his wife before the ENTIRE huge congregation. Said he felt we all "had a right" to know. Even as a kid, I thought he was workin' it.
It's those dingbats who give Baptists the blowhard image.
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