Listen I don't have time for a proper intro on this but I did just want to get it started. The SBC is parting ways with the Republican Party and the current administration for reasons explained in this article.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/ar ... ar/563000/
What do you suppose are the chances that the LDS Church might follow suit? Why/why not?
Southern Baptists getting out of political Dodge
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Southern Baptists getting out of political Dodge
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In the past quarter century Southern Baptists have been awakening to their past sins of racism while simultaneously being pawns in the culture wars. All the cross-currents of the new wave of activists are pulling the convention back from lockstep with the GOP right.
I would imagine that the policy of separating children and parents at the border is only putting more pressure on the group to pull back having great allegiance to a party and more allegiance to morality, regardless of party.
I would imagine that the policy of separating children and parents at the border is only putting more pressure on the group to pull back having great allegiance to a party and more allegiance to morality, regardless of party.
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Re: Southern Baptists getting out of political Dodge
Jersey Girl wrote:What do you suppose are the chances that the LDS Church might follow suit? Why/why not?
Per their usual timing, the Church will likely receive a revelation and disavow Trump's tactics about a decade after he is booted from office.
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I'll believe it when I see this reflected in the election of 2020.
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While the SBC may be leaving the extremes, the extremes aren't leaving.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/three-yea ... k?ref=home
From the article:
Three years to the day after the murder of nine black churchgoers by a Confederate enthusiast provoked a national reckoning with the symbols of the Old South, neo-Confederate ideology is alive and well in America.
It’s true, of course, that in the aftermath of the Dylann Roof massacre, two Deep South states; cities including Memphis and New Orleans; huge retailers like Amazon and Walmart — even NASCAR, the quintessentially Southern car racing association — removed or stopped trafficking in Confederate symbols. Some 110 monuments celebrating the Confederacy in public spaces came down in the same period, according to a new survey by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
But the most remarkable thing about that survey is how many remain — more than 1,700, and probably a good many more. Recent developments, moreover, including this month’s election primaries, show the resilience of neo-Confederate ideas.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/three-yea ... k?ref=home
From the article:
Three years to the day after the murder of nine black churchgoers by a Confederate enthusiast provoked a national reckoning with the symbols of the Old South, neo-Confederate ideology is alive and well in America.
It’s true, of course, that in the aftermath of the Dylann Roof massacre, two Deep South states; cities including Memphis and New Orleans; huge retailers like Amazon and Walmart — even NASCAR, the quintessentially Southern car racing association — removed or stopped trafficking in Confederate symbols. Some 110 monuments celebrating the Confederacy in public spaces came down in the same period, according to a new survey by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
But the most remarkable thing about that survey is how many remain — more than 1,700, and probably a good many more. Recent developments, moreover, including this month’s election primaries, show the resilience of neo-Confederate ideas.
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Re: Southern Baptists getting out of political Dodge
Maksutov wrote:While the SBC may be leaving the extremes, the extremes aren't leaving.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/three-yea ... k?ref=home
From the article:
Three years to the day after the murder of nine black churchgoers by a Confederate enthusiast provoked a national reckoning with the symbols of the Old South, neo-Confederate ideology is alive and well in America.
It’s true, of course, that in the aftermath of the Dylann Roof massacre, two Deep South states; cities including Memphis and New Orleans; huge retailers like Amazon and Walmart — even NASCAR, the quintessentially Southern car racing association — removed or stopped trafficking in Confederate symbols. Some 110 monuments celebrating the Confederacy in public spaces came down in the same period, according to a new survey by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
But the most remarkable thing about that survey is how many remain — more than 1,700, and probably a good many more. Recent developments, moreover, including this month’s election primaries, show the resilience of neo-Confederate ideas.
Sickening. But yeah, I did just want to day that Southern Baptists are found all over the country, even up in Detroit--so not all in the South.
I was (and still am on record) a member of a SB Church before I became a "nothing".
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