Crosswalk.com – Albert Mohler’s Weblog

To know Paige Patterson is to know that there is no way he could remain silent in the face of heterodoxy. Indeed, when Houston attorney Paul Pressler visited the campus of New Orleans Seminary in order to meet conservative students who could be supported through a new scholarship funded by Houston business leaders, he was directed to Paige Patterson. Their meeting would change history.

You got that right, Al. You and your fellow witch hunters of supreme arrogance literally destroyed the fabric of the Southern Baptist Convention in the cause of intolerant theological bigotry, on the basis of your own hbris; a hubris that can only assume that you have it all down pat; and that you KNOW scripture and its meaning. I seem to recall another religious body who were encouraging and lobbying for the execution of Jesus for the same reasons.

MOhler’s obvious admiration for these two theological thugs, Pressler and Patterson, who ruthlessly sought and got the removal of thousands of denominational workers, and hastened the exodus of tens of thousands more, betrays his absolute lack of credentials for writing an article like his In Defense of History post. Of course, here MOhler sings the praises of a “historian” who shares his disdain of anybody who would question the “objectivity” of historians who suggest that America has not always had the best of records in upholding human rights when it meant gain of some sort, and to “suggest” (the nerve!) that historians who whitewash American history are something other than truthful, well, that is tantamount to blasphemy in their theology that seems increasingly unable to distinguish faith from nationalism.

Those of us who now hold positions of leadership and influence in this denomination owe this opportunity to Paige Patterson and those who with him stepped out in faith for the cause of truth. Now, Paige Patterson can look across a denomination and see a generation of young pastors, missionaries, and leaders who are mobilized for the cause of the Gospel and who are driven by the very convictions Patterson sought to defend. Not a bad legacy for a man who didn’t think the plan would work.

I’ll have to agree Al, that you owe your appointment to Patterson and Pressler. Let me say, however, “You’re no Duke McCall”. Not by a long shot. In every way. I suppose you’d be proud of that fact. A generation of Southern Baptist Theological School graduates wince with embarassment just about every time you open your mouth.