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!”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
My bad. There’s some real substance to her<\/a>.<\/p>\n 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.”<\/p>\n “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.<\/p>\n “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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading \n