Idiot Organization - Southern Baptist Convention

[ck4829]

Apparently, the SBC has a national strategist for gender issues (For 'reparative therapy', you know, causing the emotional destruction of gay people).

Now, I want to ask why the Southern Baptist Convention is working so hard to become the premier homophobic organization, what they should be doing is repairing their legitimacy.

You see, the Southern Baptist Convention is one of the few organizations that cheered Bush into war and continues to support this quagmire. Richard Land, one of the leaders, who wrote a letter supporting Bush's decision to go to war, has also said that Iraq is more free than it was before and helped downplay a report on the lack of religious freedom in Iraq.

You've got to be pretty stupid when you're more open to causing extreme mental abuse to gay people than about repairing this nation, and the world really, by ousting the Bush Administration.

[hobbit709]

1. They don't care about the harm

God is on their side so how you mistreat an infidel is Ok in their book. If these clowns had a brain they wouldn't be part of the SBC. Belief gets in the way of thinking.

[unhappycamper]

2. 'Iraq is more free than it was before'

They might be 'more free' but I doubt those living in Baghdad without electricity are pleased with the situation.

The folks in Baghdad without water would disagree.

The estimated 1,000,000 refugees living in Jordanian and Syrian camps would probably disagree.

I'm pretty sure the 655,000+ dead Iraqis would disagree.

[China_cat]

4. "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"

[NMMNG]

3. Their homophobia makes them feel like they have a purpose

They get to feel useful without actually doing anything, at least anything that takes effort or sacrifice. Now helping the poor, which ordered more than 100 times in that Bible they're so fond of quoting from, is something you won't see them doing much of (if any of) because that takes real work and sacrifice. Abusing gay people is easy and effortless. Some of them even have fun at it.

[Zomby Woof]

5. My late granddad was a Southern Baptist preacher

And he HATED war. Just absolutely made him froth to speak of war. He couldn't rail enough against its senselessness.

Now, I didn't agree with him much (he never knew I was an atheist), and he could be a petty, obstinate, and spiteful sonofabitch... he could also be wise, insightful, and funny as all get out - he had the southerner's gift of storytelling - but were he alive today, he would no doubt be seething at Bush and this war, and Afghanistan too.

He was a conservative. He railed against FDR and his 'socialism'. But he didn't like how the Republicans increasingly tried to merge church and state toward the end of his years. He may have wanted the whole world to be Baptist (gawd knows he tried with his only child - my father - and never succeeded), but he knew the state was not the instrument of those means.

Safe to say he was a "vote the person, not the party" kind of man. We had common ground about the subject of war. Were he alive today, I doubt if he would quit the Southern Baptists (like Jimmy Carter courageously did), but he would be seething at their ignorant backing of Bush or the war.

Just a cautionary note against broad brushes and other fallacies.