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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.

Saturday, April 12, 2025

Baptist populists, the MAGA Base and soul molesting complicity

   Andrew Gardner uploaded a piece April 7 on Baptist populism and the MAGA Base. It ratifies what I have been saying for 35 years now about the fundamentalist takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention. in 1993 Harold Bloom of Yale wrote in his book The American Religion the tragedy in the SBC is the result of pure political machinations masquerading as religious conviction.

      Five years before that Paul Pressler in the network of Jesse Helms and the Council for National Policy walked off the interview with Bill Moyers when pressed about his Exxon family history with the right wing. Part of it had to do with windfall profit taxes Jimmy Carter ushered in as suggested by Tom Edsall in The New Politics of Inequality. Pressler's network went back to the McCarthy era in culture war politics distraction disquising oil profits.

   Homer Lindsay has a key anecdote in Gardner's telling. Bullying a compromise discussion with the ultra fundies on the seminaries, he called them chickens for backing off hardline notions. One of his key parishioners at FBC Jacksonville Florida was Tim Tebow's Mother, the Eagle Forum Woman of the Year for 2018

   See Jill Lepore These Truths to put the Eagle Forum in context over the SBC takeover years and check the index for Frank Norris and Baptist populism of Billy Sunday's Day.
        Bill Friday UNC chanclellor told Cecil Sherman the most significant development of the 1980s in North Carolina was the Helms Baptists of the CNP ouster of Randall Lolley as president of Southeastern Baptist Seminary in the town of Wake Forest cause Helms Pressler network knew if they could get in the heads of Baptist preachers in culture war politics they could sway that region of the country to the Right for a generation.   
     Google Robert Jones shutting down CRT debate religion news. It is a sordid tale how race baiting politics evolved into the MAGA politics of Abortion, guns and now immigration. It is chocked full of mendacity SBC and now National MAGA politics.
      Read Gardner and do you your best to distinguish between your ASS and a Hole in the Ground when it comes to Jesus and MAGA SBC Politics

      



        

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