Southern Baptists obscure tawdry history in Birmingham
Southern Baptists held their national convocation in Birmingham this week and acted like the takeover that began in 1979 had nothing to do with the John Birch Society and the Eagle Forum and leftovers from the White Citizens Council had nothing to do to put in place these vanilla coated 'reformers" posing as repentants on a sex scandal was the point.
The main point is the fundamentalist takeover of the SBC was crafted by the network of Jesse Helms, Ed McAteer and Paul Pressler and their friends in the Council for National Policy and all the obfuscation in the world can't negate this purgatory they are in now.
JD Grear is to be congratulated for a decent admission of this current crisis on a hot issue, as a former "reformer" the pastor Bryant Wright of Johnson Ferry in Cobb County Georgia who witnesses during Atlanta Braves commercials is to be congratulated for resisting Donald Trump with a segment on CBS Sixty Minutes for taking in Ten Syrian Refugee Families.
But the SBC CEO is now Ronnie Floyd a man from Northwest Arksansas marinated in the right wing politics of the 79 fundamentalist leadership. The current leadership is complicitous in the mess. They haven't done their homework of careful reads of Wuthnow's Rough Country, Jill Lepore Chapter Battle Lines in her magisterial history of 2018 These Truths, nor read the Apostles of Reason by Molly Worthen, nor responded to Jane Mayer's On the Media of NPR revelations about how the Baptist pulpits, the takeover got us to this Trump Moment of Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr.
There are reports on this round of the SBC at Baptist Global News; there is Jonathan Merritt's overview at the Atlantic that misses the point of the references in the preceeding paragraph of this blog and there is a discussion at SBC Trends of the forums of Baptistlife.com if you want to take a peak at how the homeboys are analyzing this latest round.
This 1a NPR hour chat on Tuesday may be the best of the week. It featured SBC's resident "intellectual" Al Mohler, the Calvinist inerrantist Tom Ascol, and a Duke Div proff raised Baptist now preaching with the Methodists. Ascol pretty much got his hiney kicked on the nature of Scripture.
https://the1a.org/shows/2019-06-12/future-southern-baptist
Rick Lance the CEO of Bama Baptists like SAra Huckabee Sanders homer Ronnie Floyd of Arkansas will never admit that this latest round of abortion politics in Georgia and Alabama is an outgrowth of the race baiting politics of Wallace of the 60s and Atwater in the 80s and 90s. Atwater admits as much But Trumps base in Ga and Alabama are still trying to put lipstick on the Pig and the pimping is about to play out.
The main point is the fundamentalist takeover of the SBC was crafted by the network of Jesse Helms, Ed McAteer and Paul Pressler and their friends in the Council for National Policy and all the obfuscation in the world can't negate this purgatory they are in now.
JD Grear is to be congratulated for a decent admission of this current crisis on a hot issue, as a former "reformer" the pastor Bryant Wright of Johnson Ferry in Cobb County Georgia who witnesses during Atlanta Braves commercials is to be congratulated for resisting Donald Trump with a segment on CBS Sixty Minutes for taking in Ten Syrian Refugee Families.
But the SBC CEO is now Ronnie Floyd a man from Northwest Arksansas marinated in the right wing politics of the 79 fundamentalist leadership. The current leadership is complicitous in the mess. They haven't done their homework of careful reads of Wuthnow's Rough Country, Jill Lepore Chapter Battle Lines in her magisterial history of 2018 These Truths, nor read the Apostles of Reason by Molly Worthen, nor responded to Jane Mayer's On the Media of NPR revelations about how the Baptist pulpits, the takeover got us to this Trump Moment of Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr.
There are reports on this round of the SBC at Baptist Global News; there is Jonathan Merritt's overview at the Atlantic that misses the point of the references in the preceeding paragraph of this blog and there is a discussion at SBC Trends of the forums of Baptistlife.com if you want to take a peak at how the homeboys are analyzing this latest round.
This 1a NPR hour chat on Tuesday may be the best of the week. It featured SBC's resident "intellectual" Al Mohler, the Calvinist inerrantist Tom Ascol, and a Duke Div proff raised Baptist now preaching with the Methodists. Ascol pretty much got his hiney kicked on the nature of Scripture.
https://the1a.org/shows/2019-06-12/future-southern-baptist
Rick Lance the CEO of Bama Baptists like SAra Huckabee Sanders homer Ronnie Floyd of Arkansas will never admit that this latest round of abortion politics in Georgia and Alabama is an outgrowth of the race baiting politics of Wallace of the 60s and Atwater in the 80s and 90s. Atwater admits as much But Trumps base in Ga and Alabama are still trying to put lipstick on the Pig and the pimping is about to play out.
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