Really, you’ve got to love it: Now, a prominent black pastor has weighed-in on Southern Baptist unhappiness with ERLC head Russell Moore to say … Not so fast.
If Russell Moore is reprimanded or rejected, it would be difficult for me to be able to continue to say, I’m proud and grateful to be a Southern Baptist. I am not sure how a reprimand will affect many like-minded Black Baptists who are members of the SBC. For sure, it would be disheartening and disappointing. Therefore, this question must be raised: Should minority churches in SBC life financially increase or maintain their level of giving to a Convention that appears poised to respond punitively to an entity head, who would dare speak honestly and ethically—regarding a Republican Presidential candidate and race matters?
As a purely business consideration, the SBC needs to pay close attention to pastor McKissic. The denomination is clearly in decline, and doomed if it can’t make inroads with the second largest demographic in the south — its area of greatest influence.
It must be well-known by now that 81% of white evangelicals voted for Trump; the question is … Why? To answer that, you need to understand that all the talk-talk-talk about love-love-love is a marketing lie. Christianity is sustained by the bottled-up resentments and malice of a defeated underclass, and they were enchanted by Trump’s overt hostility toward the educated and accomplished. He was sticking a finger in the eye of their betters. The Christianity of the Southern Baptists has more to do with cultural– and economic-affinity than theology, and they interpret Moore’s rejection of Trump as a rejection of them.
But blacks don’t see it that way at all. They rightly see Trump as a racist bully and don’t care for the sight of their Brothers And Sisters In Christ undertaking to punish a man who opposed a racist con artist who has been fined repeatedly for keeping them out of his rental properties.
With the confidence of the resolutely ignorant, Moore’s critics aren’t going to stand down; neither will blacks. Expect further decline of the Southern Baptist Convention.