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Related: About this forumReligious RW founder Seminary Head Revokes PhD Student's Job and Tuition Money After Critical Tweet
As we posted earlier in the week, Paige Patterson, the former president of the Southern Baptist Convention and current president of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, is under fire after audio from 2000 resurfaced in which he gave awful advice to women married to abusive men.
He said that divorce wasnt an option, that their first response should be prayer, that they should be aware that the violence may get worse but keep praying anyway, etc. He also put the onus on wives to change their husbands behavior.
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For that tweet, Patterson fired Montgomery from his $40,000-a-year catering manager job at the school as well as revoked his $7,000-a-year tuition break.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/05/05/seminary-head-revokes-ph-d-students-job-and-tuition-money-after-critical-tweet/
He said that divorce wasnt an option, that their first response should be prayer, that they should be aware that the violence may get worse but keep praying anyway, etc. He also put the onus on wives to change their husbands behavior.
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For that tweet, Patterson fired Montgomery from his $40,000-a-year catering manager job at the school as well as revoked his $7,000-a-year tuition break.
[Montgomery], who recorded the meeting where he was fired, was told that his tweet did not exhibit loyalty to the seminary and that it did not reflect the institutional voice.
Public disagreement does not align with Scripture, a document outlining Montgomerys termination states.
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2018/05/05/seminary-head-revokes-ph-d-students-job-and-tuition-money-after-critical-tweet/
Basically, the co-founder of the modern Religious right movement has also founded a cult of personality in which everyone must agree with him, even if it's about ignoring marital violence.
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Religious RW founder Seminary Head Revokes PhD Student's Job and Tuition Money After Critical Tweet (Original Post)
muriel_volestrangler
May 2018
OP
"Public disagreement does not align with Scripture," doesn't align with your...
Thomas Hurt
May 2018
#2
AJT
(5,240 posts)1. Well, you know, Jesus never publicly disagreed with the elders of his faith
......oh wait, he did....a lot.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)2. "Public disagreement does not align with Scripture," doesn't align with your...
Christofascist authoritarianism.
Nitram
(22,776 posts)3. I don't care what religious nuts do to each other.
MineralMan
(146,281 posts)5. And that's how they fail, one idiot pastor at a time.
My opinion, of course...
safeinOhio
(32,656 posts)6. Another Southern Baptist
they didnt hold under water long enough.