{"id":13328,"date":"2021-06-10T10:46:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T14:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13328"},"modified":"2021-06-10T10:46:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T14:46:19","slug":"kathleen-parker-notices-the-sbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13328","title":{"rendered":"Kathleen Parker notices the SBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you know?  The latest iteration of Southern Baptist pretentiousness and moral squalor has captured the attention of <i>Washington Post<\/i> columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/06\/08\/decline-fall-southern-baptist-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kathleen Parker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Russell Moore is either a politically disillusioned troublemaker or a prophet in a time of darkness. In a 4,000-word letter charging the Southern Baptist Convention with racism and sexual abuse, he has single-handedly brought the evangelical Christian world to its knees.<\/p>\n<p>[ &#8230; ]<\/p>\n<p>Moore\u2019s words carry weight not least because he\u2019s one of the most-respected evangelicals in the United States. <SPAN style=\"BACKGROUND-COLOR: #a8f2f5\">His greatest sin seems to be that he often thinks, speaks and acts as a Christian.<\/span> Among other things, he was a frequent critic of President Donald Trump, which borders on blasphemy among the Trump faithful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since I&#8217;ve said for years that Russell Moore is one of the very few genuinely-decent men [No women allowed!] in the upper reaches of the Boss Hogg-ish SBC, I&#8217;m not particularly surprised to find him on the Outs with the club leadership; since the so-called Conservative Resurgence it has degenerated into little better than a cult of self-abasement superintended by amoral predators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you know?  The latest iteration of Southern Baptist pretentiousness and moral squalor has captured the attention of Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=13328\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13328"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13328"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13332,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13328\/revisions\/13332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}