Posted on 11/13/2018 6:57:00 PM PST by marshmallow
When language such as 'postmodern ideology,' 'intersectionality,' and 'radical feminism' are being deployed in a very conservative wing of a denomination like the Southern Baptist Convention, well, those are fighting words.
The Southern Baptist Convention is no stranger to internal religious disputes, but a new divide over racial politics is threatening to spill dramatically into the public square and split the convention. This disagreement differs from the normal clashes over theology and church polity with which the SBC is accustomed to dealing.
The nation’s largest affiliation of Protestant churches faces a controversy that contains a potent admixture of politics and theology. While politics writ large have circulated in the background of the religious debates of the SBC, purely political disputes have rarely been front and center. But all that has changed in the past year.
At the MLK50 Conference held this spring in Memphis, Tenn., the SBC took on one of the most politically charged debates in America — the effects of racism on American society today. As the conference title indicates, the subject was the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., and the emphasis was on how racism continues to be a blight on American society and the Christian church.
While it’s no surprise the topic of race was discussed at the MLK50 event, what may have surprised some in the SBC was how race and the church was discussed and by whom. Pastor Matt Chandler — certainly no theological liberal — in his lecture at the MLK50 conference asserted that the white members of his congregation in Texas are racist in ways they don’t understand and don’t want to understand.
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I think the SJWs need to decide if Jesus was a Person of Color or not.
You want to know about white privilege? Look at the row upon row upon row of white crosses in the American military cemeteries of Europe and Asia. There is R white privlidge.
If the term “white privilege” is replaced with Jew or Jews the rhetoric sounds little different than the Nazis in the mid 1930s.
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I guess Pastor Matt Chandler is a expert on the subject of what white people think.
Why would a white adult able to complete a thought remain part of such a brain dead denomination?
Those were the white people who founded this country and who even yet beg the faithless among them, of any ethnicity race or belief to join them under that God of history.
That privilege is available to anyone who quits hating and trying to destroy those who have heard the call,but rather joins in.
In this instance, with privilege, goes numbers.
There are simply more white people than any other coalition of ethnic groups in this country.
Now, the unfortunate thing is, not all white people are of the same opinion about ANYTHING. There are many factions among this white majority, whereas the minority communities may, within themselves, be much more unified. But again, no ethnic group is a unified bloc that is politically reliable in every instance.
Gets back to content of character, and not the color of one’s skin.
Good character is NOT a defined racial trait.
White (liberal) privilege is being able to claim Native American ancestry, getting positions because of it, finding out it is only 1/1024 (at most), and not experiencing any consequences for such deception.
I suppose I could bash my head against the wall to cause brain damage and cut my IQ in half.
That should almost even up the privilege.
What is this?
“White Privilege” equals Western Civilization. Whites created western civilization and took it with them to the New World. The only way to eliminate “white privilege” is to destroy western civilization. Western Europe is well on its way.
Why are the Baltists and Democratically affiliated Congregations the only ones allowed to express a political opinion in a church?
Could it be ... Satan ?
Correction:
The Southern Baptist Convention is NOT the largest denomination of churches in the U. S.
The Catholic Church is the largest denomination.
SBC is cratering. Social Justice programs are up, baptisms down. There are so many great folks in the SBC, but the !leadership is adrift. Sad to watch it happen.
#4. Good observation. At least most American blacks are not anti-Semitic and waiting to start a domestic “Kristalnacht” (except the New Black Panther Party, some of the BLM organizations, the old Republic of New Africa, the Reparations crowd esp. N’COBRA, Keith Ellison and Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of Islam, and a few groups you haven’t heard of yet).
However, the SBC has turned far left over the past several decades and it bodes no one any good that they have fallen for the “white privilege” crap.
Trayvon Martin was a tragedy that did not have to happen. He brought it on by himself.
Michael Brown was a thug and brought on his own death by attacking a policeman and trying to get his gun (oh, just to ping tin-cans in the alley).
There are other legitimate “bad” killings by police officers that they could have justifiably use to illustrate their point, but didn’t. The key question here is “WHY NOT”?
But on the global level...
“The world’s largest religious denomination is Sunni Islam, followed by Roman Catholicism.[8][9]”
I see this as a way for the Southern Baptists to clean out the ranks.
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