In a recent piece at Christianity Today, two Southern Baptists theologians–Jarvis J. Williams and Curtis A. Woods–called out white supremacy and racism and offered a way for Christians to combat it.
Albert Mohler, the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, endorsed the Williams and Woods’s piece with this tweet:
The right way to confront racism is biblical and theological and centered in the gospel of Christ. A timely word from @drjjwilliams and @curtiswoods4 in @CTmagazine https://t.co/cLzHwIOgAd
— Albert Mohler (@albertmohler) August 6, 2019
And then came the critical tweets:
As each day passes you prove more-so what @tomascol and other faithful men are warning us about.
— Jason Harris (@JasonHarris2819) August 7, 2019
Anti white, liberal incrementalist rhetoric like this ignore the many crimes committed by other races daily, deny whites an ethnic community that African Americans and Hispanics enjoy, and legitimize replacement level migrations.
Shame.— Jacob Dodson (@tradistjacob) August 6, 2019
The problem is that the gospel of Christ states the fact that all men are sinful before God. You seem to taint the gospel by putting the call of repentance for racism on only one group when the other group is just as culpable. And that only brings more tension.
— Gil Martinez (@gimar63) August 7, 2019
How is any faithful Christian supposed to heed the advice of this article in fighting racism and White Supremacy when you and your brothers are promoting such gross redefinitions of those terms––the very redefinitions by which the faithful are also being abused in the culture?
— Jacob Brunton (@JacobTBrunton) August 7, 2019
I am guessing that these tweeters endorse this video.
Jemar Tisby, author of Color of Compromise: The Truth about the American Church’s Complicity in Racism called them it out.
Al Mohler is nobody’s liberal, and neither are the writers of the article he shares, but look at the replies. In all this talk of white nationalism, we ignore Christian fundamentalism to our peril. There’s always a spiritual/religious element that gives authority to ideologues. https://t.co/HP77KlzzCY
— Jemar Tisby (@JemarTisby) August 7, 2019
I appreciate the hyphenation in the title; these reactions are pretty anti social 🙂
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I am starting to wonder if the Southern Baptist Convention ought to just put itself out of its misery and disband. Don’t any of the factions posting on this matter have more productive avenues for their energies? Is it any wonder that baptisms are down statistically?
It’s almost humorous in my area. The really successful church starts are for the most part totally independent of any denominational ties. The Southern Baptist’s have observed this pattern and have managed to do a couple of stealth church starts. The organizers decide upon a church name which doesn’t remotely use the word Baptist. Visitors are often told that the doctrine is baptistic in nature, but there is almost an avoidance at mentioning anything about broader denominational ties. When one sees all of this foolishness which Mohler and the others are doing, is it any wonder that new local congregations try to conceal their full identity?
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