Friday, June 17, 2005

Southern Baptists in doldrums

The Southern Baptist Convention is said to be "in the doldrums" (which I believe is somewhere between Sodom and Dallas), and "faces a challenge to determine whether it is on the right path." So says president Rev. Bobby Welch of Daytona Beach, Florida. There is apparently disagreement over whether Southern Baptists should pull their children out of public schools, and there is concern that the baptism rate has not increased during the last several years.

Let me help you out, Bobby: No, the Southern Baptist Convention is definitely not on the right path. Declaring women inferior to men is ignorant, as is declaring gay people immoral. God is not a "He," and--if you really mean that part about opposing war, where the hell have you been for the last few years? Here's another tip, Bobby--spending millions of dollars on the poor and homeless would be more Christ-like that putting it into hundreds of multi-million dollar very ugly buildings.