It was the Southern Baptists who led me to awareness that Christianity is innately degrading, that the Pious will always, necessarily, as an innate theological bias, favor what degrades others — so I always get a thrill of pleasure when somebody looks around and says, “Whoa! These people are some kind of screwed-up!”
Enter Beth Moore. Until she got on the Darker Side of the SBC for her criticisms of Donald Trump, I didn’t know much about her; insofar as I ever thought about her at all, I supposed she was just another empty televangelist mulcting the gullible.
My bad. There’s some real substance to her.
Prominent evangelical author and teacher Beth Moore has said she is no longer a Southern Baptist, a split that comes after her criticism of sexism in the church and condemnation of “Trumpism.”
“I am still a Baptist, but I can no longer identify with Southern Baptists,” Moore, founder of Living Proof Ministries, told Religion News Service in an interview published Tuesday.
“I love so many Southern Baptist people, so many Southern Baptist churches, but I don’t identify with some of the things in our heritage that haven’t remained in the past,” she said.
Good for her. The Southern Baptists have been shrinking for years and, nowadays, the clear-headed have left and there’s hardly anybody left but the loonies; I doubt her exit will have a measurable effect upon membership. But it will further isolate the SBC as the Kingdom of Retrograde Nutjobs, and that’s not a bad thing.