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Born May 18, 1953; got saved at Truett Memorial BC in Hayesville, NC 1959. On rigged ballot which I did not rig got Most Intellectual class of 71, Gaffney High School. Furman Grad, Sociology major but it was little tougher than Auburn football players had Had three dates with beautiful women the summer of 1978. Did not marry any of em. Never married anybody cause what was available was undesirable and what was desirable was unaffordable. Unlucky in love as they say and even still it is sometimes heartbreaking. Had a Pakistani Jr. Davis Cupper on the Ropes the summer of 84, City Courts, Rome Georgia I've a baby sitter, watched peoples homes while they were away on Vacation. Freelance writer, local consultant, screenwriter, and the best damn substitute teacher of Floyd County Georgia in mid 80's according to an anonymous kid passed me on main street a few years later when I went back to get a sandwich at Schroeders. Had some good moments in Collinsville as well. Ask Casey Mattox at www.clsnet.org if he will be honest about it. I try my best to make it to Bridges BBQ in Shelby NC at least four times a year.

Sunday, March 19, 2023

The Billy Graham/Mohler Stampede and the End times of the Southern Baptist Convention

     This blog won't register unless you do the prerequisite reading which in this case is the magnificent take down of the career of Albert Mohler as President of the Souther Baptist Seminary in Louisville Kentucky last week at Baptist Global News. Easy Google and read carefully.

     Mohler Sunday nights of his youth was taken by DJ Kennedy in Coral Gables Florida and that's pretty much where he has ended up.

     The photo with Billy Graham at BGN is fitting as Mohler Told Charles Marsh, the definitive biographer of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, five years ago most folks have no idea the energy and enthusiasm Billy Graham gave behind the scenes to the fundamentalist takeover of the SOuthern Baptist Convention.

     Mohler as editor of the Ga SBC weekly the Christian Index was obsessed with abortion. See the Nation Mag piece on SBC and the Abortion Devil. Mohler played the politics of Mendacity.

     FBC Spartanburg SC is a petri dish perfect example of Mohlerism at the local church level. Confused and complicitous in all things MAGA.

    The former chancellor of the UNC system the popular Bill Friday who for decades had his on Friday night program on NC PBS told influential Baptist leader Cecil Sherman the most significant event in the State of NC for the decade of the 80s was the fundamentalist takeover of the Baptist Seminary in Wake Forest, a sister of Mohler's Louisville Seminary.  Friday knew that Jesse Helms and Paul Pressler strategy was to get in the head of the next generation of Baptist pulpits in the Carolinas and Eastern Seabord and pave the way for MAGA or some version of it. Their plan  worked exceedingly well.

    

    Carlyle Marney was Baptists best mind of the mid 20th century. In Marneyesque fashion Bham pastor Gary Furr had this to say in conjunction with Mark Wingfield's take down:


" A man running in front of a cattle stampede might be  confused for a lot of things. Leader isnt one of them. Mohler took a generation of young ministers into an intellectual cul de sac, and now they can only keep running in circles"

posted by foxofbama | 12:35 PM

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