2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumSouthern Baptist leader reprimanded, show canceled
The Southern Baptist Convention's ethics chief has been reprimanded and his radio show canceled after he made inflammatory comments about the Trayvon Martin case.
Among other things, Richard Land accused President Barack Obama and other black leaders of shamefully exploiting Martin's death for political gain.
His comments upset many black Southern Baptist leaders, one of whom called for Land's resignation.
The controversy got more intense when a blogger revealed that Land's commentary was copied nearly verbatim from an editorial in the Washington Times.
More at: http://news.yahoo.com/southern-baptist-leader-reprimanded-show-canceled-000025485.html
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Firstly, I'd bet most who see the story, and most who read this post, have NO IDEA why the Southern Batshits split from the national Baptists.
Southern Baptists SUPPORTED SLAVERY. It's true. Look it up.
But, they apologized for it, around 1986.
GoCubsGo
(32,103 posts)The Southern Baptist Convention was formed about 20 miles from where I live. I just wonder how many of its members realize its history. Not that they would care, judging by the attitudes of many of them that I have met over the years.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)would look down upon plagiarism
Beartracks
(12,846 posts)I'm a radio junkie and have been listening to Land's radio spewing for quite a while.
I also remember hearing the Southern Baptist 'apology' for their past racism back about 1978 or so, I may even have it on cassette tape (I have a couple of hundred in a box, was anal about recording and saving excepts when I had a working dual-cassette deck for a coupla decades).
Anyhow, this guy and most of 'his' organization only regret having to 'pc' what they have to say in public. As for the black (or colored) members of the Southern Baptists, please remember that Jesus was RAPED into us over a couple hundred years and 'Jesus' never EVER said or did anything to straighten what his followers did.
After all this time, this is what it took for these geniuses to see the light?
My respect for black christians is in the mathematically impossible realm of negative zero.
ck4829
(35,098 posts)Bake
(21,977 posts)Eduated at THE Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (that "liberal cemetery, where they bury the Bible" , back when Duke McCall ("Thinking Allowed" was President of the Seminary. Back when professors like Henlee Barnette, who knew a thing or two about real ETHICS, and Wayne Ward (who had a brilliant young TA named Molly Marshall, a future professor who was purged under Pres. Al Moeller), and Gerald Blevins (who knew and taught Bultmann better than anybody in the country, and who now lies in Cave Hill Cemetery in Louisville, in Seminary Corner), and Glenn Hinson and countless others. Back when it was a school of THINKING and INSIGHT. Then came Al Moeller and the fundamentalists, and all hell broke loose.
Southern Baptists came a long way in the 60s and 70s. Unfortunately, with the rise fo the fundamentalists and their takeover of the SBC, the SBC has regressed decades, to the point where I don't even claim to be a Baptist anymore.
Back when I was active in the denomination, someone like Land would have been a pariah. Now he's "normal" but they're trying to disavow him. It won't work. Land is the new "normal" in the SBC, along with the idiots who want to put up gay concentration camps and call on the government to kill gays, etc.
They'd do well to get back a few decades, not to their "roots", but to the time of their enlightenment. Until then, I can't call myself a Southern Baptist.
There are honest-to-God Southern Baptist pastors like my dear friend and seminary classmate Joey Rosas, who was fired from his church in TN because he cared enough to speak the truth about GLBT issues and loving those who aren't like everyone else, who make me weep for my former church home.
Now I'm homeless.
Bake