Topics: Racism, with a side of misogyny.
Topics: Racism, with a side of misogyny.
Got here by reading about the controversy I posted about the Southern Baptists declaring themselves not ok with white supremacy this year. This article is two years old.
You'd think someone would have mentioned this as part of the more advanced history and social studies classes on the Civil War. Of course not. An entire denomination that has become vocal and influential in our politics and civil discourse was founded on upholding the institution of slavery. That's not even a question of separation of religion and governance, that's a straight up disqualifier to say anything to anybody, ever, until and unless a HUGE and very public mea culpa acknowledging history and practice occurs and is demonstrated to be sincere in action.
Excerpt:
In 1860, a Southern Baptist pastor from Virginia, Thornton Stringfellow, defended the institution of forced enslavement of millions of African men and women in "Cotton Is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments", with the full force of scripture: “Jesus Christ has not abolished slavery by a prohibitory command. … Under the gospel, [slavery] has brought within the range of gospel influence, millions of Ham's descendant's among ourselves, who but for this institution, would have sunk down to eternal ruin.”
Fifteen years earlier, the Southern Baptist Convention had formed when a group of churches broke away from another loose association of Baptists, called the Triennial Convention. The foreign-outreach arm of the organization had forbidden a slaveholding church elder from becoming a missionary, saying it would violate the organization’s neutral position on slavery. After attempting to negotiate a compromise, 293 dissenting church leaders—representing as many as 365,000 Christians—met in Augusta, Georgia, and formed a new association that supported slavery.
In 1845, the Southern Baptist Convention was formed - because pro-slavery. I can't even.
P.S. Civil War? About slavery. You were wrong and you lost. Shut down your slavery loving symbols and institutions and get over it.
For fun, here's the bit about the wimmins:
Over the course of a two-day program that featured close to 40 speakers, there was only one woman included in one of the main sessions.
Y'all just be nice and quiet and virgins until you get married, then you be nice and quiet and have babies and serve your husband.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/southern-baptists-wrestle-with-the-sin-of-racism/389808/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/southern-baptists-wrestle-with-the-sin-of-racism/389808/
Got here by reading about the controversy I posted about the Southern Baptists declaring themselves not ok with white supremacy this year. This article is two years old.
You'd think someone would have mentioned this as part of the more advanced history and social studies classes on the Civil War. Of course not. An entire denomination that has become vocal and influential in our politics and civil discourse was founded on upholding the institution of slavery. That's not even a question of separation of religion and governance, that's a straight up disqualifier to say anything to anybody, ever, until and unless a HUGE and very public mea culpa acknowledging history and practice occurs and is demonstrated to be sincere in action.
Excerpt:
In 1860, a Southern Baptist pastor from Virginia, Thornton Stringfellow, defended the institution of forced enslavement of millions of African men and women in "Cotton Is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments", with the full force of scripture: “Jesus Christ has not abolished slavery by a prohibitory command. … Under the gospel, [slavery] has brought within the range of gospel influence, millions of Ham's descendant's among ourselves, who but for this institution, would have sunk down to eternal ruin.”
Fifteen years earlier, the Southern Baptist Convention had formed when a group of churches broke away from another loose association of Baptists, called the Triennial Convention. The foreign-outreach arm of the organization had forbidden a slaveholding church elder from becoming a missionary, saying it would violate the organization’s neutral position on slavery. After attempting to negotiate a compromise, 293 dissenting church leaders—representing as many as 365,000 Christians—met in Augusta, Georgia, and formed a new association that supported slavery.
In 1845, the Southern Baptist Convention was formed - because pro-slavery. I can't even.
P.S. Civil War? About slavery. You were wrong and you lost. Shut down your slavery loving symbols and institutions and get over it.
For fun, here's the bit about the wimmins:
Over the course of a two-day program that featured close to 40 speakers, there was only one woman included in one of the main sessions.
Y'all just be nice and quiet and virgins until you get married, then you be nice and quiet and have babies and serve your husband.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/southern-baptists-wrestle-with-the-sin-of-racism/389808/
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/southern-baptists-wrestle-with-the-sin-of-racism/389808/
There was a woman included in one of the main sessions? That's surprising.
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