Southern Baptist of Texas pastor, Rick Scarborough, is leading cheers for former Judge Roy Moore to run for Governor of Alabama. Both Scarborough and Moore are Christian Supremecists whose judicial and political philosophies display remarkable parallels with Christian Reconstructionism.
Scarborough is a former official fundamentalist candidate for president of the Baptist General Convention of Texas (BGCT) and an activist in the takeover of the Southern Baptist Convention. After moderate Baptists in Texas persistently defeated candidates like Scarborough that ran for president of the Texas convention, Scarborough and other fundamentalists left the BGCT and began a separate convention called the Southern Baptists of Texas. Relations between the national Southern Baptist Convention and the Baptist General Convention of Texas have been strained ever since. The SBC now selects all of its officers and trustees from the ranks of the Southern Baptists of Texas.
Texas is the best place to observe the stark differences between the Moderate-Conservative Baptists that used to lead the SBC as opposed to the Fundamentalist-Dominionist Baptists that now lead the SBC.
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On Monday June 20, 3:15 p.m. Judge Moore will address the SBC Pastor's conference for 30 minutes.
Also listed on the program are Falwell, Adrian Rogers and Jerry Vines of recent fame regarding comments on Muslims.
So much for a move toward the middle by the SBC.
Regarding the comment, both Scarborough and Moore are Christian Supremecist does not sound like you intended to be complimentary. Who determines the judgement rendered with that statement? As for Mr. Wilkey's concern for a move toward the middle, who wants to be in the middle of the road...a dangerous place to be? Is that similar to being luke warm and neither hot nor cold?
Anon,
Common Sense is in the middle of the road.
Reality is in the middle of the road.
Idealism and extremism cause only destruction, death and chaos because they lack those two very vital ingredients.
greek shadow, tell me where in the Bible to find that the middle of the road is common sense or reality. That is the kind of advice that the world will give us, but as Christians there is a right and a wrong. We are also told that narrow is the way and we will find ourselves without guidance if we go for the broad way. It seems to me that this site has more confidence in politics than God and His Word.
Anonymous God gave you a brain and he gave you the ability to use it. It is a same that the Bible didn't tell you that he expects you to use it.
grandmal, It is evident here that God's wisdom is not too well thought of and it also seems that not everyone want to use his or her brain.
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