Broadway Baptist Church, in Fort Worth, is splitting from the Baptist General Convention of Texas, because the umbrella church group still thinks that merely being gay is going to send you to hell, and Broadway Baptist has a little more of a nuanced view on that. (The church was dropped in 2009 from the Southern Baptist Convention, which felt similarly.) The two parties have been having relations with each other since 1886.
Texas Church Ends 124-Year-Old Relationship With Bigoted Baptists
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Mike in Asheville
Wow, thinking baptists. Who knew?
Kurt
“Wow, thinking baptists. Who knew?”
Um, maybe Dr. King? Roger Williams?
Snownova
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Christianity is so divided and then sub-divided again, its about bloody time it starts to topple over already.
Mike in Asheville
Okay Kurt, point very well taken.
I know better than to smear men/women of goodwill (Martin Luther and Coretta Scott Kings of the world) with the vile hypocrisy and bigotry of those of the ilk of Bernice King, their daughter, Alveda King, Martin’s niece, Falwell, Robertson, et al.
And Broadway Baptist is obviously cut from the same fabric as the elder Kings. Good for them.
— Kurt, thanks for reminding me too that always being snarky does not get one’s point across, and sometimes those devilish delights do insult the good among us. Sincerely here.
Mike in Asheville
@No. 4 Me
I forgot to link @No. 4 response to @ No. 2.
Alfonzo
Not to mention those of us, within our own community who study theology from the likes of Dr. Priscilla Crane (a transgender woman).
Just like in everything else in the world, it’s up to you to find out the truth. If you take someone else’s word for what the Bible says, you may as well accept the Fox News as the truth.
Pitou
It’s only a matter of time until mainstream religion is null and void. I have no evidence to back this up, but I feel the vast majority of my generation (20 somethings) could give a shit less. We grew up hearing about Pedo-priests.. and we don’t want ANY association with them what-so-ever. I have 10 siblings. We were raised catholic.. and not a single one of us, and most of our friends, wants/has anything to do with that nonsense.
I’m telling ya.. Wait 10 years and do a poll of people 40 and under and see where we all stand in regards to religion. I’m willing to bet most will state no association, and the majority of those who will have association will be born and bred from the bible-belt.
WillBFair
@Mike in Asheville:
Thanks for the retraction. Seems like hardly anyone will admit to being wrong. You’re an exception. Your sweet humility is a lesson to us all.
There’s another point here, I think. It’s about the anti religious left subsidized by corporate money to drive a wedge between religious and atheist liberals. Although there are plenty of dingbats on the left who do that work free of charge.
adman
@WillBFair: Well, for what it’s worth Will, there are many people on the left who really resent the corporate subsidized religious on the left, and their abysmal-and-only-getting-worse culturally conservative voting patterns. You’re treading on territory forged by conservative rhetoric, and laying the blame at the feet of the anti-religious sounds a little mealy mouthed to me. It definitely isn’t historically accurate as far as the last forty years in American politics is concerned.
declanto
Lest we forget, the Phelpses are a Baptist affiliation. Anti-religion is frequently blamed for the insistence on separation of church and state as well. I see the loosening of the bonds that bind organized religions as a dissolution of institutionalized bigotry.