The end of the mystique, ctd

Southern Baptist Conventioneers attempt to come to grips with the fact of decline.

Southern Baptists are reaching less lost people and having less babies. This means fewer and fewer people are growing up in the SBC system. With fewer people in the system, fewer people feel a natural loyalty to the SBC. This means SBC institutions like state conventions will need to do a better job casting a compelling vision if they want to attract and keep pastors on board. Loyalty to the SBC is rare.

But they are, of course, doomed; the Christian narrative is incontestably false, and reality always has the last word.

Christianity entered the world as a sect within Judaism and, when the sect was kicked-out following the failure of the Jewish Rebellion, survived that trauma by recourse to the techniques of the cult, by demanding unconditional loyalty to the group — and that, unhappily, is when the canonical gospels were written. The cultish outlook is embedded deeply in Christianity, and that is what they are returning to as the decline quickens.

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