What do you think of the Southern Baptist name change? http://tinyurl.com/88upot5
How was I so stupid for so many years? The truth is, I had no idea at the time I attended that horrible place that it was formed as a racist church, they certainly never taught that part of their religion. It was only after I left that I found out. Ugh, I am still ashamed I ever set foot in one of those churches and I have been out of there for decades.
Southern Baptists Finally Figure Out Pro Slavery Name Not Good?
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, Jul 12 2012 12:36 AM
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Posted 12 July 2012 - 12:36 AM
"In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."~Mark Twain
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Posted 12 July 2012 - 12:50 AM
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Posted 12 July 2012 - 05:21 AM
They should just be honest and call themselves "xenophobic assholes for Jesus."
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Posted 12 July 2012 - 09:11 AM
Valerie Tarico wrote that article (the one linked in the OP). She did a superb job. Nobody can reasonably claim it was skewed or untruthful. Great analysis of the current evangelical ethos.
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QUOTE Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves .
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Posted 12 July 2012 - 09:33 AM
Valerie Tarico wrote that article (the one linked in the OP). She did a superb job. Nobody can reasonably claim it was skewed or untruthful. Great analysis of the current evangelical ethos.
Her analogy here is brilliant. Not something that will readily come to mind when they announce the switch, but accurate and eye-opening and hopefully a stab in the public-relations heart:
To draw an analogy, imagine that Coca-Cola decided to distance from its past sales of cocaine drinks by dropping the “Coca” and calling themselves “World Dominance Cola.”
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Posted 12 July 2012 - 09:50 AM
I love to see these religious strategies broken down in terms of marketing, economics, military analogies and such. The denominational and mega church leaders love to dress these things ups as "mandates from GAWWW-UDDD" or "visions," etc, but really all they are doing , whether consciously or unconsciously, is plugging into social dynamics and, eventually, adopting the current culture's technololgy and styles (styles of music, fashion, architecture - whatever).
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QUOTE Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves .
QUOTE Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves .
-- Walter Anderson
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Posted 12 July 2012 - 09:51 AM
I wish they would let us pick the name...
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Posted 12 July 2012 - 09:52 AM
I love to see these religious strategies broken down in terms of marketing, economics, military analogies and such. The denominational and mega church leaders love to dress these things ups as "mandates from GAWWW-UDDD" or "visions," etc, but really all they are doing , whether consciously or unconsciously, is plugging into social dynamics and, eventually, adopting the current culture's technololgy and styles (styles of music, fashion, architecture - whatever).
Everything is planned for a certain effect all the way down to the bottom of the church services.
"We exist for the universe to understand itself..."- Carl Sagan
“Immortality: A toy which people cry for, And on their knees apply for, Dispute, contend and lie for, And if allowed Would be right proud Eternally to die for.” - Ambrose Bierce
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