{"id":1477,"date":"2015-06-23T09:09:37","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T13:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2015-06-23T09:09:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T13:09:37","slug":"when-names-and-symbols-go-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1477","title":{"rendered":"When names and symbols go bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albertmohler.com\/2015\/06\/23\/the-heresy-of-racial-superiority-confronting-the-past-and-confronting-the-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\">Albert Mohler<\/a> addresses demands that the names of prominent, and extravagantly racist, founders of the Southern Baptist Convention be removed from the seminary&#8217;s campus buildings.<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">New: &quot;The Heresy of Racial Superiority &#8212; Confronting the Past, and Confronting the Truth.&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/fiM34h2TAj\">http:\/\/t.co\/fiM34h2TAj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/albertmohler\/status\/613317001193328640\">June 23, 2015<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>This is a striking piece and, though there is much to disagree with, there also is much else that is needfully and unexpectedly frank.  I suspect Mohler is trying to thread a very fine needle here, fully aware that his denomination was founded on racist ideology and that a very strong current of crude racism remains, but that the SBC is doomed if it can&#8217;t shed that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jeriwho.net\/lillypad2\/?p=16801\" target=\"_blank\">Jeri Massi<\/a> had an arresting phrase in her post yesterday, &#8220;an infrastructure of traditions;&#8221; that is <i>exactly<\/i> what is preached in the overwhelming majority of Southern Baptist churches &#8212; and those traditions include egregious racism.  Make no mistake: That sweet old lady who hasn&#8217;t missed a sermon in 60-years muttered furiously about &#8220;those people&#8221; during the civil rights movement, and the parents and grandparents of that handsome young couple with the new baby stood on the side of the highway and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Blood-Done-Sign-My-Name\/dp\/1400083117\" target=\"_blank\">threw rocks at the marchers<\/a> who walked from Oxford down to Raleigh.  They expect preaching that comports with their infrastructure of traditions, and aren&#8217;t going to put up with some preacher who calls &#8217;em out.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll have much more to say about the subject of flags and dishonored names in a day or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Mohler addresses demands that the names of prominent, and extravagantly racist, founders of the Southern Baptist Convention be removed from the seminary&#8217;s campus buildings. New: &quot;The Heresy of Racial Superiority &#8212; Confronting the Past, and Confronting the Truth.&quot; http:\/\/t.co\/fiM34h2TAj &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=1477\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477"}],"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=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1480,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions\/1480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}