{"id":7628,"date":"2018-03-14T07:36:54","date_gmt":"2018-03-14T11:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7628"},"modified":"2018-03-14T07:38:17","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T11:38:17","slug":"baptist-divide-keeps-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7628","title":{"rendered":"Baptist divide keeps growing"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Baptist theologian who left the SBC during the so-called “Conservative Resurgence” and joined the Cooperative Baptist Fellowship is saying aloud what every clear-headed grown-up has known for a long time: The Southern Baptists are a destructive presence<\/a> in our national life.<\/p>\n

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Baptists are doing a lot of harm in today\u2019s society, emergent church leader Brian McLaren said in a podcast posted recently on a Cooperative Baptist Fellowship blog.<\/p>\n

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McLaren said he believes the Christian faith is undergoing an identity crisis more profound than the Reformation<\/span> 500 years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cWatching the success of Donald Trump win over especially white people, and especially white Christians and especially white evangelical and Baptist Christians, in my opinion this is a pivotal moment,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not only has science revealed, and created, a world that doesn’t comport with conservative Christian claims about reality — e.g.<\/i>, evolution — the entire Abrahamic narrative is disintegrating before the onslaught of scholarship which shows that much of the Old Testament’s history of the Jews is make-believe.<\/p>\n