http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance117.html
What Happened to the Southern Baptists?
by Laurence M. Vance
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“We can see no just ground for the enormous military and naval establishment now being built up and maintained by our government.”
~ Southern Baptist Convention, 1936
“We express pride and strong support for our American military.”
~ Southern Baptist Convention, 2004
What happened to the Southern Baptists?
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is the largest Protestant denomination in the United States. The annual meeting of the SBC was held this year in San Antonio, Texas, on June 12 and 13. President Bush addressed the crowd of thousands of messengers via satellite with a nine-minute speech on the closing day “to multiple lengthy applauses and standing ovations,” according to Baptist Press, the official news agency of the SBC.
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In http://tinyurl.com/2nfnrc, I blogged about the “interesting” fact that “Balancing Church and State” has led to the State taking over religion in the new Amerika.
The serfs can no longer use the Church (i.e., encompassing all religious denominations including the Atheists and Wiccans) as a counter-balance to the oppressive State. When opposing the intrusions of Gooferment into religion, the Atheists and Wiccans are “the enemy of my enemy”.
The Gooferment took over the functions of the Catholic Church and allowed the scandals to diminish its influence. So to, it subverted the Southern Baptist from their anti-war stance into a pro-Gooferment entity.
Seems straight line to me, opposed the gooferment and you will get “converted” by hook, crook, or force.
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