Good Lord,   why do I even read on when I see the name of Paige Patterson or Al Mohler.   The guys consistently show their intense arrogance and absolute assurance (which to them is a good thing) that their interpretation of the Bible IS the most important thing in the world.  Even more important than “love your neighbor”.

NEWS: Patterson’s Election Seals Conservative Control – Christianity Today Magazine: ““Anybody who wants to believe that the Bible is true and is deeply concerned about reaching the world for Christ is going to be increasingly happy in the Southern Baptist Convention,” Patterson told CT. “Those with serious questions about the validity and veracity of certain portions of the Word and who do not have a deep commitment to evangelism and missions will be less comfortable with the Southern Baptist Convention of the twenty-first century.” “

I do realize this is 4 years old,  but I can never forget the havok and mayhem and absolute divisiveness people such as Pressler and Patterson brought upon the SBC.  What a mess and a disgrace.  I keep watch,  and I pray for peace there in a theological sense just as I do for the world in the sense of the stoppage of wars and the healing of divisions.  I could certainbly return if the SBC were to return to being a place of being able to print and support the voicing of theological dialogue,  but for now,  and for some time,  it does not,  and so it remains a place where I won’t show my face or cast my pearls before swine. (Swine not being the populace of the SBC,  but the spirit of the Pressler/Patterson coalition/hunt/crusade to “weed out the infidels (almost sounds like the fundamentalist Muslims but with a different target for the enenmy– actually—- theologically— they share a lot of ideas about theocracy and the “holy war”.)