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The Hunt For 'Liberals' Becomes A New McCarthyism For The SBC
Talk To Action member Big Daddy Weave details [ see link above ] the fanatical internecine ideological purges ongoing in the Southern Baptist Convention.
A few choice quotes from Big Daddy Weave's bestiary:
Fellow Southern Baptist to assume there are no liberals amongst us is a most naive and dangerous assumption. There are. And they would like nothing better than for us to lower the standard of inerrancy under the guise of widening the tent.
-Dr. Bradley Reynolds, Professor of Christian Education, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (August 2, 2006)
It appears that the disgruntled moderates and liberals within the SBC have simply regrouped and revised their strategy. Now, it seems that they have cloaked themselves under the veil of conservativism." They say that they are conservatives, that they believe in inerrancy, and that they were for the Conservative Resurgence. Then, they turn around and say that they want the SBC to become more "cooperative" with other "conservatives" that do not affirm inerrancy; they are constantly criticizing the SBC, the IMB Board ofTrustees, conservative leaders in the Resurgence, the BF&M, and they portray the Conservative Resurgence as some kind of "denominational takeover," etc., etc., etc. Obviously, the "handwriting" appears to be identical to that of the moderates and liberals from the past - those that want the SBC to take a "leftward" turn theologically. It appears that they want to sew discord within the SBC and either "widen the tent" or burn it to the ground! I, for one, am fed up with the antics of these liberals and moderates - BTW, this includes those who refer to themselves as "conservatives" in a very "liberal" sort of way -- within the SBC.
-Jeremy Green, Senior Pastor of Second Baptist Church, Waco TX
Liberals, liberals everywhere..... they look and sound so much like conservatives then they turn out to be liberals ! - So one has to be very, very careful ! |
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