Al Mohler Just Had NO IDEA About All That Sexual Harassment in the SBC.

[Voltaire2]

The Paige Patterson scandal continues apace. Every new day brings with it a new revelation about just how terrible the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), his home denomination, really is for women. A few days ago, Al Mohler–one of the denomination’s biggest names–tried to cool that fire a little. Well, he only made it worse. Today I’ll show you what he said and why he probably said it. And I’ll show you how he’s likely only made the SBC’s position worse.

Al Mohler is one of the SBC’s biggest names. He’s been active in the denomination since before I even (briefly) joined it in the mid-1980s. Among a constellation of successes in right-wing Christianity, he’s been a president of the SBC’s flagship seminary (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), a big name in Focus on the Family, and a member of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW).

As a hardline Calvinist, he’s also one of the “chief architects” of the so-called “Conservative Resurgence,” which is the SBC’s name for the political takeover and complete domination of the denomination by hard-right fundagelicals. He and his fellow architects fought for years, but when they finished the fight, the SBC looked like it does today: authoritarian, utterly and completely regressive, focused single-mindedly on its quest for the sheer domination of American culture, and mercilessly, ruthlessly intolerant of dissenters within its ranks.

Under Al Mohler’s careful cultivation, the SBC shriveled and lost every single bit of whatever good spirit it had ever possessed. They stopped being evangelical and began being fundagelicals.

More here: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/rolltodisbelieve/2018/05/31/al-mohler-just-had-no-idea-yall-no-idea-about-all-that-sexual-harassment-in-the-sbc

[bobbieinok]

1. Excellent summary of what's happening!! Impt for anyone concerned about SBC's effect on US politics

Appreciate introduction to a great patheos blog!!

The link to the ReligionNews article is especially informative about Mohler's claim of innocence. 'How in the world could a theology of women's subordination to men cause problems?'!!!