#southern Baptists

[contemplatingoutlander]

Paul Krugman writes about the dystopia the U.S. could become under one-party Republican rule. He thinks a GOP autocracy would be far worse than Orban’s Hungary.

Indeed, these days it’s almost conventional wisdom that the G.O.P. will, if it can, turn America into something like Viktor Orban’s Hungary: a democracy on paper, but an ethnonationalist, authoritarian one-party state in practice. [...] But what strikes me, reading about Orban’s rule, is that while his regime is deeply repressive....it is... “soft fascism,” which makes dissidents powerless via its control of the economy and the news media without beating them up or putting them in jail.

Do you think a MAGA regime, with or without Donald Trump, would be equally subtle? Listen to the speeches at any Trump rally. They’re full of vindictiveness, of promises to imprison and punish anyone — including technocrats like Anthony Fauci — the movement dislikes.

How the remnants of the Confederacy morphed over time to (ironically) take over the Party of Lincoln

Krugman’s article is well worth reading. But I reblogged it to give a context for one of the reader’s comments, which provides a succinct history lesson about how the spirit of the Confederacy (kept alive in part through the Southern Baptists) has finally found a home in today’s GOP.

Interesting how the term 'Culture War' has been missed here, when it is actually central to the problem.

The Right, (the Neo-Confederacy within the Republican party) is fighting the Culture War, and has been since the end of the Civil War, in 1865.

This dovetailed with the formation of the Southern Baptists in a schism with the Baptist Convention in 1845, 20 years earlier, over the Southern demand that slavery should be protected from the abolitionists in the North, and the parallel demand that they should help spread slavery to the new states of the American West.

When they lost the war, the Confederacy concealed it's political beliefs within the Evangelical Fundamentalists Alternative Facts of Creationism vs Evolution, the Lost Cause versus the Yankee victory.

It was easy for Trump to gather the faithful Neo-Confederates with the Obama Birther Myth, and easier still to believe in QAnon and the stolen election.

Evangelicals are not Christians.

They are a political party representing the Confederacy, pretending to be a religion. The religion they want is a Confederate Theocracy, even if it destroys the United States, as they failed to do in the Civil War. They may have succeeded this time.

--UTBG, Denver

#gop #republicans #gqp #us politics #neo-confederacy #southern baptists #right-wing evanglicals #authoriarianism #right-wing theocracy #viktor orban #hungary #paul krugman #the new york times

[redshift-13]

https://twitter.com/lindyli/status/1528577887061909505

#christianity #southern baptists #abortion #reproductive rights

[revolutionaryatheist]

#christianity #southern baptists #religion #atheism #humanism

[gwydionmisha]

#Southern Baptists #Sexism #Female Pastors #News

[savedfromsalvation]

Ru Row - More christian perverts exposed 

#southern baptists #southern baptist convention america

[officialyourdailyinspiration]

by Virgil Walker | In days to come, Southern Baptists will have a decision to make. Will Scripture be sufficient to determine how Christ’s church should function, or will feminists win the pulpit and destroy what’s left of their churches?   As culture wages war against God’s design of a man and woman...

#G3 Ministries #Virgil Walker #Will Feminists Win the Pulpit? #Southern Baptists #rebellion #Word of God #God's design #men #women #g3min.org

[spurgie-cousin]

it's always so jarring seeing/hearing the rod kids. i know this has been discussed ad nauseam but i feel so bad for them and how robotic and uncomfortable they look all the time... like it's hard for them to speak or something... also, do christians really believe people in the OT knew "prophetically" that jesus was gonna save them in the future like wtf??? i've never heard that before (#jew) and i'm so confused with fundie logic... send help pls

Yea I totally agree, I watch them a lot and it's still so bizarre to hear them all speak when they're in performance mode. They get this deer in the headlights look and their voices become so unnatural and weird (and high-pitched if it's one of the girls).

Also yea 100%, there are prophets in every version of the Bible that I'm aware of and prophecies are all usually related to the coming/execution of Jesus (so most are in the Old Testament, my brand of Christianity believed that Jesus was the last prophet). David in particular is a big figure because most Christians believe that Jesus is a direct descendent of him (or as direct as you can be after hundreds and hundreds of years). KJV adherents like the Rodrigueses also usually believe that David wrote a lot of the Pslams and speaks prophetically about the coming of Jesus through them (authorship of the Pslams is more disputed in the NIV Bible and academic theology world as well as in Judaism iirc, but correct me if I'm wrong).

I grew up in a church that focused on the NIV and they'd tell us stories about the prophets but it was less of a deal than I think it is in KJV-focused churches which are more into the fire and brimstone-y aspects of the Bible. And then you have sects like Mormonism who take the concept of prophets and run with it into the 21st century, but that's a rant for another time lol.

#religion #southern baptists #kjv bible #niv bible #evangelical christianity #evangelicism #evangelicals #queue

[in-sightpublishing]

Will ‘Nones’ bring a more hopeful future?

Publisher: In-Sight Publishing Publisher Founding: March 1, 2014 Web Domain: http://www.in-sightpublishing.com Location: Fort Langley, Township of Langley, British Columbia, Canada Journal: In-Sight: Independent Interview-Based Journal Journal Founding: August 2, 2012 Frequency: Three (3) Times Per Year Review Status: Non-Peer-Reviewed Access: Electronic/Digital & Open Access Fees: None…

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#Catholics #Flynn Effect #IQ #James Haught #Nones #Protestantism #religion #Southern Baptists

[aaronjhill]

HOW THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT SLOWLY TOOK OVER THE GOP WE KNOW TODAY “From the presidency of Ronald Reagan through that of Donald Trump, Southern Baptist leaders played influential roles in blessing Republican presidential candidacies, vetting Supreme Court justices, and shaping policy.”

#Reagan #Republicans #Trump #Southern Baptists #Religious Right #Christianity #nationalism #GOP #Supreme Court #abortion #Dobbs #Roe #MAGA #conservatism #limited government

[howtokillavampire]

do you ever see fanart so tasty that you are then obligated to join the fandom and spend all of your waking hours learning the lore behind the characters, or is that not a universal experience?

#this is how i got into batman #i mean im more into the batboys #im in it for the robins #does it count if wolfy's jesus fanart made me want to read the bible from an objective pov #technically thats a fandom #i think my entire southern baptist extended family would collectively die if i referred to them as a fandom #anyways #pretty art pavolovs me into consuming new media #batboys #batfam #batman #dc robin #dcu #coldflash #fanart #drarry #mattimir #superbat #hannigram #jonmartin #johnlock #samifer #jaydick #damijon #timkon #timbern #im totally forgetting a bunch of my fav ships bc my brain is tiny and forgets things #so please add your own blorbos #thanks for coming to my ted talk #but why tf are you still reading the tags???

[ir-tg-curvy-mature-feetworship]

ALWAYS accuse the other side of which you doing.

#Nick Anderson #political cartoon #editorial cartoon #christianity #Southern Baptists #Disney #GQP

[gwydionmisha]

#Southern Baptists #LGBTQIA+ #Religion #North Carolina #News

[zoobus]

A friend told me that once you start noticing there's a new church scandal about mass abuse coverup literally every 1-2 weeks, you never stop noticing it. I thought he was exaggerating and immediately googled "church scandal," where I learned of a breaking story about a massive csa coverup by the french catholic church.

I've been periodically checking in on this for years now. Keeps being true.

#csa mention #the last time i remembered to do this was the day the southern Baptist convention scandal dropped

[greatvaluegirlfriend]

brennan’s bobby dawn voice should be listed in the trigger warning section i’m not even joking

#every manipulative southern baptist just came full speed into my brain #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #dimension 20 #d20 #fantasy high

[daughterofcainnnn]

#jesus christ #hayden anhedönia #god loves you but not enough to save you #churchcore #baptist church #ethelcain #preachers daughter #southern gothic #southern gothic aesthetic #sun bleached flies #film photography #vintage photos #film filmstills filmedit movies movie stills cinema cinephile cinematography film aesthetic world cinema depression winter #photography