{"id":3638,"date":"2016-04-15T09:45:20","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T13:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3638"},"modified":"2016-04-15T14:30:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T18:30:31","slug":"snarking-at-abuse-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=3638","title":{"rendered":"Snarking at abuse victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

C.J. Mahaney is the Calvinist founder of a network of Maryland-based churches known as Sovereign Grace Ministries, now re-organized as Sovereign Grace Churches<\/a>. The original organization disintegrated amid a barrage of sex abuse scandals<\/a>, and Mahaney decamped to Louisville, Kentucky, where he hangs-out with Albert the Pious, pastors another church, and mourns the wickedness of “the world.”<\/p>\n

Mahaney’s rehabilitation following the collapse of Sovereign Grace Ministries followed the usual course: He was neither seen nor heard for a brief while, then began to make occasional appearances, and is once again a celebrated headliner<\/a>. Meantime, decent people rage that he and his abusive organization skated with no penalty but some bad publicity — a nearly meaningless consequence here in the United States of Amnesia.<\/p>\n

Just this week he was a speaker at the biennial Together for the Gospel<\/i> conference, and introduced by no less than Albert Mohler his Very Self, the Mightiest Theologian Of Them All.<\/p>\n

Before Mahaney’s appearance there was a lot of blog commentary, a petition<\/a> that he be withdrawn as a speaker, a handful of protestors<\/a> outside the meeting venue, all to no avail. The show, you know, must go on.<\/p>\n

Then came Albert the Odious’<\/s> Pious’ introduction<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Mohler referred obliquely to the pushback in his introduction of Mahaney, getting laughs with the line: \u201cI told C.J. that in getting ready to introduce him I decided I would Google to see if there was anything on the Internet about him.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Har-har! Good one! Everybody knows there’s a lot!<\/p>\n

Pastoral care for the hurting? No. Mohler’s snark, and that roomful of pastors who laughed, is and has always been, the truth about Christianity.<\/p>\n

Religion is in the control business.<\/p>\n

Bishop John Spong<\/i><\/p>\n

What these fools with their heads stuffed with pious clich\u00e9s instead of brains can’t understand is that they’ve already lost<\/i> control.<\/p>\n

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I’ve openly loathed and ridiculed Albert Mohler for years, since long before the fringe Southern Baptist outsiders realized how vicious he actually is — so what I have to say will be dismissed as more of the same. Even so, it must be said: It is time for Mohler to go, to be cast into Outer Darkness and, with that uniquely Southern Baptist refusal to ever acknowledge unpleasantness, never spoken of again. He is a disgrace, utterly unfit for the company of decent people, and a Southern Baptist Convention incapable of seeing that deserves only contempt. He makes the words “I am a Southern Baptist” a badge of shame.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

C.J. Mahaney is the Calvinist founder of a network of Maryland-based churches known as Sovereign Grace Ministries, now re-organized as Sovereign Grace Churches. The original organization disintegrated amid a barrage of sex abuse scandals, and Mahaney decamped to Louisville, Kentucky, … Continue reading →<\/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\/3638"}],"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=3638"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3646,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3638\/revisions\/3646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}