I saw a statement on a blog today where the blogger, (a theologian) wondered if the Southern Baptist Convention was becoming a cult.
I dismissed it.
After reading a blogger I have a great deal of respect for, I’m wondering if the first blogger is making more sense than I originally gave him credit for.

The second blogger whose post disappointed and discouraged me is highly intelligent, thoughtful, analytical. However, no blogger ever can consistently churn out good posts. It is not possible, we all get tired and our posts can’t be sharp all the time.
This second blogger must be really beat. I just read what will in my mind, be, in all the years I’ve read and learned from him his worst post.
He’s an SBC preacher, one I want and need to believe has a grip on reality. One who I need to believe represents what is good in this denomination. Balanced, centrist, not out on the fringes. I’m not naming him. I left a comment, his posts are moderated, he knows who he is and if he wants to beat me to death with his bible, rip me to shreds in an email, guilt me, he certainly has the ability. (SBC preachers are men. Women aren’t worthy) Many Baptists groups do ordain women.

update This blogger took down his post. He has shown honour, kindness, integrity and honesty. He did not rebuke me, berate me with his formitable intelligence, beat me up with his bible - he acknowledged he posted without all the facts.
He does not know the heaviness he has lifted in me in doing what he has done. He did not justifiy, rationalize, deny. No puffed up ego. He has demonstrated why he is so worth reading.

I didn’t have all the facts, and when all the facts are lined up, this incident wasn’t evidence for what I wrote. It was my choice to write- as it is with everything on here, and I was wrong.

Thank you.

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Fox News ran this clip - it is being called a debate. This is not a debate, it’s irony as delightfully pointed out by Dave Warnock at 42. A female anchor, getting two statements from two white guys about the Mrs. degree being offered at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

Homemaking
Preparing women to model the characteristics of a Godly woman as outlined in Scripture. This is done through instruction in homemaking skills, developing insights into home and family while continuing to equip women to understand and engage the culture of today. It is unique in that we recognize the need to challenge women both intellectually and practically. It is our mission to equip a woman to impact women and families for Christ.

Course Title Course Number Hours
Orientation to Homemaking HMK 2101 1
Biblical Model for the Home and Family HMK 3103 3
Nutrition HMK 3113 3
Value of a Child HMK 3203 3
Meal Preparation with Lab HMK 3204 4
Senior Seminar HMK 4101 1
Basics of Design HMK 4103 3
Homemaking Practicum HMK 4201 1
Clothing Construction with Lab HMK 4204 4
Total 23

Bloggers (particularly Southern Baptist) have had a merry time with the Mrs. degree. I have not yet found out if men are permitted to take these courses and graduate. A good jumping off point is the SBCOutpost, particularly, but not limited to Ben Cole’s posts. The media is behind the curve on this story, but far better late than never.

This spoof sounds just as reasonable as what is being offered with the Mrs. degree.

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Now to the title of this post. Anti abortion groups in the US have moved from being just fetal centric to woman centric to keep attention on their cause, raise money and keep the pressure up to get two final conservatives judges on the Supreme Court Church so these groups will have their shot at revoking Roe to make abortion in the US illegal.
Here is how part of the woman centric tactic actually looks.

Richard Land president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, thinks women who seek an abortion are mentally impaired.

“It’s not demeaning to assume that any person who is a mother who could make the decision to do this must be suffering from some form of psychological impairment because of the crisis of the pregnancy or because of societal demeaning of human life,” Land said.

See the moral vacuity in this thinking? Women are temporarily mentally ill for making a choice Land doesn’t approve of. Estrogen renders women incompetent. Society brainwashes vulnerable females. Women aren’t capable of moral decisions. From the CT piece:

Would making most abortion procedures illegal cause women to seek deadly, unprofessional abortions? Almost certainly not, Earll said. “What we saw with abortion is that when it’s illegal, most women don’t try to have one. The law is a teacher in this.”

So women must be taught right from wrong. And in the thinking of these preachers and right wing groups, the US must roll back Roe and Wade so women can be regulated until females learn this right from wrong.

This is religion. Punitive, disciplinary, reprisal based, revengeful and vindictive. Laid out by men who will regulate female sexuality. It is their right and responsibility to do so since women aren’t capable.
Men are the only ones clear headed enough to lay down the rules and the law. Preacher men, church men sane enough to understand principle since they aren’t impaired women; the only ones capable of enforcing the rules, regulating woman’s principles.

There are US anti-abortion groups working for changes to laws so that women can be charged and imprisoned for having an abortion.

If people leave my preaching confident in the rules and principles I have given them, I have preached a false Gospel. If they leave the room confident in the faithful grace and power of the Savior to work in them as they seek to obey — I have preached the Gospel.

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The title has been taken from Street Prophets and also from the Christianity Today piece and Talk2Action along with some of the forumulations of ideas in on the views of these abortion stands.