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TexasTowelie

(112,167 posts)
Wed May 16, 2018, 01:17 AM May 2018

As Baptists swirl in controversy, this Texas pastor says preaching justice is 'evil'

A Southern Baptist pastor in South Texas says the church has a problem: too much talk about justice.

Racial justice, social justice., global justice — you name it. He's heard enough.

He's against all this justice. Not only that, but he wants Southern Baptist Convention churches to stop preaching about it.

Saying the whole idea of justice and equality is way too liberal, the Rev. Grady Arnold of Cuero has filed a resolution calling for the denomination to reject social justice as “evil.”

Saying social justice is based on “Marxist ideology,” he decries it as not about rights and compassion but about “liberal theology” and compassion for “groups they deem as 'victims.' ”

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/bud-kennedy/article211206004.html

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yonder

(9,664 posts)
2. So, he's saying no Christ-like compassion? For the least of us, for whomever?
Wed May 16, 2018, 01:37 AM
May 2018

The kooks are out there. They live, they breathe, they eat and drink. Worse yet they breed. A lot.

TexasTowelie

(112,167 posts)
3. What do you expect to hear from someone from Cuero, Texas?
Wed May 16, 2018, 01:48 AM
May 2018

After all, their high school mascot is the Gobblers.

I believe that a woman that I knew in college that was from Cuero is now the Methodist minister there. I expect that she would be in full agreement as the Baptist preacher.

yonder

(9,664 posts)
4. gosh, I'd expect them to know something about the teaching
Wed May 16, 2018, 02:33 AM
May 2018

of one of the main characters in that big, black book they keep thumping.

atreides1

(16,079 posts)
5. He knows about the teaching
Wed May 16, 2018, 05:29 AM
May 2018

He also knows that his followers are mouth breathing, knuckle dragging, brain dead clowns...who are more likely to support him then to question him!!!

This type of Christianity is as twisted and delusional as the type of Islam practiced by ISIL...

yonder

(9,664 posts)
9. Agreed, and the curious thing
Wed May 16, 2018, 12:41 PM
May 2018

is that both groups think they are as far apart from each other as can be, when in reality, they're peas in a pod: patriarchal, inflexible, authoritarian, close-minded, intolerant, automatons.

Girard442

(6,070 posts)
7. This just in: Baptists vote resolution to support Trump, even though he's revealed he's Lucifer.
Wed May 16, 2018, 06:34 AM
May 2018

A spokesman for the Southern Baptist Convention said that Lucifer/Trump can still be counted on to appoint pro-life judges and that's what's most important.

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