"There is no neutrality in attending a wedding. Period," @albertmohler tells @baptist21 gathering. #sbc15
— James A. Smith Sr. ن (@JamesASmithSr) June 16, 2015
This is true only if you put your cult and its demands ahead of the happiness of your friends and family — which, of course, is exactly what Mohler expects. There is no objective reason, misgivings and all, for a sane person to avoid a same-sex wedding and refuse to wish the celebrants well.
The annual meeting of the SBC has begun in Columbus, Ohio, with 4,482 registered messengers.#SBC15 #SBC2015
— Lonnie Wilkey (@lonniewilkey) June 16, 2015
This is interesting. The Convention claims it has 46,499-churches, meaning fewer than 1-in-10 Southern Baptist churches has sent a messenger to the year’s BIG EVENT. And, since churches can actually send more than 1-messenger, according to the amount of their annual contribution to World Headquarters, and many doubtless did, the truth is probably that only 1 in 15- to 20-churches actually sent a Messenger. Intentionally or not, it’s become a club for the large churches.
Meaning, the guys running the show up there at the podium aren’t hearing a peep about how they’ve wrecked the brand name. Yay!
If a Southern Baptist church "evolves" on gay marriage, it evolves itself right out of the SBC. #SBC15 #SBC2015 https://t.co/ahfD1VyGaN
— Jacob! (@jlupf) June 15, 2015
And what is the Mohler tweet this backlinks to?
The @SBC Executive Commttee just found that Weatherly Heights Baptist Church in Huntsville, AL is not in friendly cooperation with the SBC.
— Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) June 15, 2015
Ho-hum. There are more every year, and there will continue to be more every year. The SBC’s pastors ain’t genuises — but they ain’t suicidal, either; Matthew Vines has given them an escape hatch, and they’re going to use it. The day will inevitably come, as it did in connection with the SBC’s shameful history of racism, when they have to apologize.
Welcome, #SBC15 – See special rate @CreationMuseum – more info: http://t.co/czJYu9KhNV
— Ken Ham (@aigkenham) June 9, 2015
He sure knows his audience.
Book Two: A Criticism of the Highest Values That Have Prevailed Hitherto
V: The Moral Ideal§333 Ethics: or the “philosophy of desirability”. “Things ought to be otherwise”, “things ought to be different”: dissatisfaction would therefore seem to be the heart of ethics.
One could find a way out of it, first, by selecting only those states in which one is free from this feeling; secondly, by grasping the insolence and stupidity of this attitude of mind: for to desire that something should be otherwise than it is, means to desire that everything should be different — it involves a damaging criticism of the whole. But life itself consists in such desiring!
To ascertain what exists, how it exists — seems a much higher and more serious matter than every “thus it ought to be”, because the latter, as a piece of human criticism and arrogance, appears to be condemned as ludicrous from the start. It expresses a need which would want to have the organisation of the world correspond with our human well-being and which directs the will as much as possible towards the accomplishment of that relationship.
On the other hand, this desire, “thus it ought to be”, has only called forth that other desire to know what is. The desire of knowing what is, is already a consequence of the question, “how? Is it possible? Why precisely so”? Our wonder at the disagreement between our desires and the course of the world has led to our learning to know the course of the world. Perhaps the matter stands differently: maybe the expression, “thus it ought to be”, is the utterance of our desire to overcome the world -—