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oraxx's avatar

The SBC is about as out of touch and tone-deaf as a religious organization can get. It is more about what they want to do to the people they hate than anything close to love and compassion. Young people are leaving in droves. I don't think they helped their cause much when so many members of their clergy pledged their unconditional love for the most grotesquely corrupt, incompetent, and immoral President in our history. Baptist intolerance just doesn't sell to the younger generation.

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♫♪ And the Beat Goes On ... And the Beat Goes On ... ♪♫

Greed and aggregation of wealth at congregants' expense. Sexual assaults and rape. Castigation of the LGBTQ+ community. Working against women, against choice, and promoting subservience of women. Slowly but surely, I think people are finally seeing the true face of the Southern Baptist Convention, and they are voting with their feet. Are they going the distance and becoming atheists? Almost certainly not, but they may finally have had a bellyful of the crap that they see at the pulpit and elsewhere in their church.

As with so many other stories, followup is necessary. Still, I fully expect to see this trend continue, and I am all for it.

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