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There are a lot of different kinds of Baptists. Southern Baptist, General Association of Regular Baptist, various independents, and many more. Much of what you're seeing is apt to be offshoots or breakaways from the more established Baptist organizations. In fact I am pretty sure that it's possible to start a completely unaffiliated church and slap the label "Baptist" on it without it being challenged by, say, the Southern Baptist Convention. So long as you don't claim it to be Southern Baptist specifically.
So I would not read too much into it. It is less specifically a Baptist issue than a strict fundamentalist / inerrantist problem, and in fairness to such folks, most don't go anywhere near this far with the hate speech.
True... the American Baptists can be quite liberal in their theology.. and even accepting of gay people.
According to a video this "pastor"* made and posted on his website...Judaism is from Satan and no Jews were gassed during the Holocaust. According to him six million Jews died from overwork and hunger.
So we can add anti-Semetic holocaust denier to his growing resume of hate.
I agree. Shouting "amen" to death-by-heart-exploding is flat-out sick and disgusting.
I found the response of the people in the congregation to be the scariest thing about the video. I think Steven Anderson is actually more dangerous than Fred Phelps because he actually has followers other than his family and there are other churches around the country that support him. His church is part of an extreme wing of an already extreme denomination you can find in almost any city or town in the United States (Independent Fundamental Baptists). While pretty much all Americans were united against Fred Phelps as a crazy nutcase, I don't think that is the case with Steven Anderson.
This is precisely the reason why fundamentalist religions need to go bye-bye.
This is why I keep saying to the fundies on this board to be a different kind of Christian.
Because this pastor is nothing more than ISIS's opposite number -- the American Taliban, the American al-Qaeda. The only thing keeping this pastor and his congregation from hunting down and killing Ms. Jenner are our secular laws.
If we lifted those laws for the sake of religious freedom, America would be just as bad as any horrific Islamic fundamentalist region or nation. There would be blood and bodies everywhere.
This is precisely the reason why fundamentalist religions need to go bye-bye.
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If we lifted those laws for the sake of religious freedom, America would be just as bad as any horrific Islamic fundamentalist region or nation. There would be blood and bodies everywhere.
A fundamentalist is a fundamentalist is a fundamentalist. I've been saying for years that the only difference between Christian fundamentalism and Islamic fundamentalism is that Islamic fundamentalists are more likely to live in countries that allow them do what Christian fundamentalists would do in a heartbeat if they could get away with it. It's a mental illness that extends beyond individual faiths.
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