was so inappropriately judgemental towards. This is a superficial change not any sort of refutation of his terrible remarks.

Southern Baptists are about as conservative as you can get. It's a wonder they let their women wear shoes and leave the kitchen.

You have to be an asshole to fit in with them.

There are still some of us working from within to teach basic Christian concepts to Southern Baptists.

It's challenging to effect change from within institutions that are so divorced from the principles they claim to champion. I'm ambivalent about that tactic, about the implicit consent one gives by remaining within those institutions, but it's very much an individual choice to make.

If people who have actually read the Gospels leave the Church only those who have not will remain.

and actually expressing some "outrage" instead of doubling-down by accepting that type of heinous discourse (and insisting he remain in that position of power), is still a small crack in that edifice of male domination.

I joined a First Baptist Church. I did not know there was such a difference between First and Southern. I mean we do talk about God and Jesus, but I think we talk more about food. I did make one mistake early on. One of the men asked our pastor why God stopped Abraham but not Jephthah. The pastor looked at me and I stood and said I would like to answer. We then discussed the next covered dish meal.

In Boston I went to a conservative temple but was taught and had my Bar Mitzvah at an Orthodox shul. Went to Unitarian services in San Francisco. In Florida it was back to Orthodox shul and sometime to a Catholic church. Never went to a mosque, don't know why since I was stationed in a Muslim country.

he is a real piece of SHIT.

Figures.

Some commenters at the blog - thewartburgwatch.com - have sarcastically wondered how meeting in the Kay Baily Hutchinson Center is compatible with SBC's view of female subordination!!

On 6/13/18 (morning) giving an "Evangelical Report" (10 minutes) but he's not on the list of speakers for the "Pastor's Conference" portion.

I grew up Southern Baptist and they really can’t remove blatant misogyny from their teachings as it would absolutely destroy their entire interpretation of the Bible. Of course the only way to remove misogyny from the Bible is to rewrite it and give the entire thing new meaning.

It is a list of myths from a hierarchical, Iron Age society. Of course it is rooted in misogyny.

There are dozens and dozens of "versions" of "the Bible" ("old" testament, i.e., the Torah, plus "new" testament), depending on how it was translated from Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Latin, including what was considered "valid", and what was "removed" (e.g., what are known as the "apocrypha", including texts about women).

There was this event (afterwhich splits occurred between "eastern" and "western" ) and this event, that lead to all sorts of protestant ("protest" ) denominations with their own interpretations.

In general, the various "versions" of the texts evolved from whatever survived time, and were manipulated to create theologies designed to maintain and strengthen societies built around patriarchies.