[lbo-talk] Re: Too dang lib'ruhl

Tim Francis-Wright twright at ziplink.net
Mon Jun 21 23:01:48 PDT 2004


Kevin Robert Dean wrote:


> <http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&e=20&u=/ap/southern_baptists>
>
> The Southern Baptist Convention voted Tuesday to quit the Baptist

> World Alliance following complaints that some members of the loose,

> global association had adopted liberal theology and "anti-American"

> thinking.
>
> The SBC is the world's largest Baptist denomination and America's

> largest Protestant body, with 16.3 million members. It helped launch

> the alliance 99 years ago and was a strong supporter before shifting

> toward strict conservatism a quarter-century ago.
>

The main reason for the founding of Southern Baptism as its own denomination was to reconcile chattel slavery with Christianity. (See http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/sbaptists.html)

--tim f-w



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