"In 1844 the issues of missionary work and slavery came to a peak. The Home Mission Society gave a statement saying that a person could not be a missionary and wish to keep his slaves as property. This caused the Home Mission Society to separate northern and southern divisions. As a result of this the Baptists in the south met in May of 1845 and organized the Southern Baptist Convention"
"The consequences of this decision have been long lived. A survey by the Home Mission Board in 1968 showed that only eleven percent of Southern Baptist churches would admit Americans of African descent.[4] The Southern Baptist Convention of 1995 voted June 20 to adopt a resolution renouncing its racist roots and apologizing for its past defense of slavery. The racism resolution marked the denomination's first formal acknowledgment that racism played a role in its founding. "
It took the Southern Baptists until 1995 to admit they were wrong...don't you think they are a bit out of touch?
2007-05-23 02:46:40 · 19 answers · asked by G.C. 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Remember the same Bible that Southern Baptists used to justify slavery, is the Bible they are using today to keep Homosexuals and women in their "place".
A little out of touch? 1995!! they are way behind times.
2007-05-23 02:48:30 · update #1
here is a site with Southern Baptist history..pathetic.
http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/sbaptists.html
2007-05-23 03:02:48 · update #2
Most Babtists are racist today both ways. Blacks hate whites and vice versa. That religon hardly unites races.
2007-05-23 02:49:51 · answer #1 · answered by Steven 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
Can you provide your source. The reason I ask is because I was under the impression that the Southern Baptist Convention was the side against slavery and that is why they seperated from the north. If I am wrong I would like to correct that thinking.
**As far as the other statements, I began my Christian journey in Southern Baptist churches and I cannot recall one sermon in the churches that I attended regarding either homosexuality or repressing women. However, I have heard alot about it on television and this forum. I think there is a misnomer about how much attention REAL people give to these topics. Most people I know go about their lives and prefer to hear sermons on their salvation and future rather than oppressing others. I could be wrong or maybe I was fortunate in the churches I chose to attend. I have the attitude that others are responsible for their own lives and I think more people feel that way than don't.
**Thank you for the link, however you are welcome to keep your insult. Have a good day. :)
2007-05-23 02:51:42 · answer #2 · answered by future dr.t (IM) 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
As I attend a Southern Baptist church, I can speak from experience. If the Southern Baptists were still against the black culture they would not accept my adopted children so readily. My oldest son is at least 1/4 Mexican, along with 2 Indian tribes and black. My middle son is South American (dark) and my youngest son is what used to be called mulatto (1 black parent and 1 white parent). The whole church, starting with the pastor, loves these 3 boys, immensely.
And, before anyone tries to poo-poo this: It is not just this particular congregation. In my 18 years as a Christian, I have never met another Christian who is against any culture simply because they are a different culture.
2007-05-23 02:57:04 · answer #3 · answered by †Lawrence R† 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'M WITH YA EARL D
NO!
An apology smology they don't like us anymore then as now
They don't even follow the bible, they used and still use Old Testament doctrine to put us in slavery and now use it to take our money and their own...
Liars that tell you, you are still under the LAW and the Ten Commandments. They still inslave and you that go there are just as guilty to sin as they that impose it!
Rm 10.1-4 says "...the end of the LAW is Christ" ...They made up their own religion
Mk 12. 30,31 Chris said " These two uphold
all "ALL" THE LAWS OR COMMANDS...
WE will NEVER get rid of prejudice churches if we do not come out of the Old and get into the NEW where JESUS'S BLOOD IS...(MATT 26.26; 1COR 11.25)
(Heb 7, 8.13f; 9.10ff; 10.9,10)
SLAVERY HAS NEVER been abolished it just was shifted so that we all could make these men that realised all money is GREEN! And you are the suckers who
pay for there fancy homes churches cars 2nd and 3rd younger wives....
BY THE WAY...The Homosexual issue that you are really trying get at! Christ said hate the SIN NOT THE SINNER! MK 12.31
2007-05-23 04:15:23 · answer #4 · answered by manoman 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you prejudiced against Southern Baptist, you neglected to mention all of the other groups of Christians that teach that blacks originated from the curse of Ham or as the result of the mark of Cain. Why are you just picking on one group? Besides I doubt any of the Southern Baptist of today were alive in 1844 and most of them probably were unaware of what you have said. Maybe when they found out they apologized.
2007-05-23 03:00:54 · answer #5 · answered by cj 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I recall correctly, there's a town in the state of Alabama which only officially ended slavery in about 1995 or thereabouts. Apparently they never actually signed the anti-slavery laws or maybe it was a deliberate exception. Some guy making a mockumentary actually 'bought' some of the townspeople as slaves for a day. The oversight was corrected the very same day, if I recall.
I may well have the time and location wrong, so I would appreciate if someone who remembers it better than I would post the correction or email me.
Primoa: I actually agreed with you and gave you a thumbs up and I never thought that would happen. Maybe miracles do exist after all. :D
2007-05-23 02:53:55 · answer #6 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
How dare you equate slavery with homosexuality. You have just made a supremely ignorant statement. Obviously, you consider being black and being gay as very similar. One is a result of ethnic background. The other is a result of sexual preference. Have gays been gathered up, sold, separated from their families, raped, tortured, murdered and forced to labor for someone else's profit? Yes, southern Baptists were wrong. But there is a difference in interpretation and translation in the Bible. They misinterpreted Noah's bloodline, and the curse on one of his sons. They maliciously used it to enslave people. There is no ambiguity in the verses against homosexuality in the Bible. As for the treatment of women, I suggest you read Ephesians, where it commands that husbands love their wives as Christ loved the church, and gave Himself for it.
2007-05-23 02:58:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The deeds of a few cast blame to the many. I am a Southern Baptist, I never owned slaves, and I have nothing for which to apologize. Do you have the dates for when the Catholics, Jews, Methodists, Presbyterian, Jehovah Witness, Wicca, Buddhist, and all the others apologized? How out of touch is the rest of the world? Have you apologized? There is so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us, does it behoove any of us to criticize the rest of us.?
2007-05-23 02:56:39 · answer #8 · answered by loufedalis 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Why should someone apologize for something they had nothing to do with? I'm not baptist, but I don't see how you can be blaming people who were born 150 years after the fact for something. Is there logic there somewhere? Should we be blaming you for the actions of your ancestors?
Seems to me you're just bashing southern baptists because they wouldn't accept you as a gay minister, using any little bit of amunition you can find. If you don't agree with them, fine, no problem, you're already in another church. Seems very immature to me to be holding a grudge against a church and bashing them for beliefs you yourself use to hold. Maybe you should just get over it already.
2007-05-23 02:55:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you are being very broad in your comments here. Yes there are some people in the south who are racist. And yes some of those people are baptist. But that does not mean that every southern baptist is racist.
2007-05-23 02:51:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
There sure are a lot of other "out of touch" people. I know many governments are apologizing now in 2007. Hmm...12 years after Southern Baptists...they must REALLY be out of touch.
2007-05-23 02:49:41 · answer #11 · answered by Seeking answers in Him 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋