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The Southern Baptist Ban on Confederate Flags
The Atlantic ^ | 6/15/16 | MATT VASILOGAMBROS

Posted on 06/15/2016 12:52:03 PM PDT by Timpanagos1

Southern Baptist churches in the United States will no longer display the Confederate battle flag.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: baptist; church; churches; confederate; confederateflag; confederateflags; dixie; flag; flags; purge; sbc; southern; southernbaptist
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To: Timpanagos1

Oh, no. Now the Southern Baptists are joining the new Catholic religion and are not combatting satan, but are against the Confederate flag!

Another Christian religion falling into the cesspool of PC.


21 posted on 06/15/2016 1:13:48 PM PDT by HomerBohn (Liberals and Slinkys: Good for nothing but make you smile as you shove them down the stairs.)
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To: Timpanagos1

I’ve never even seen such a thing, but they don’t have the authority to tell individual churches what they may or may not do anyway, so this just feels like pandering and “solving” a “problem” that doesn’t even exist.


22 posted on 06/15/2016 1:13:49 PM PDT by Trump20162020
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To: Mr. Mojo
The flags of several Southern states, such as Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida, have flags based on or incorporating Confederate themes. As for Arkansas, per Wikipedia, "In 1987, Bill Clinton signed Act 116 that stated 'The blue star above the word “ARKANSAS” is to commemorate the Confederate States of America'".

Perhaps SBC affiliated churches should remove such flags from their facilities.

23 posted on 06/15/2016 1:15:07 PM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: LeoWindhorse

Exactly why are they idiots? That flag has zero spiritual significance, meaning, etc.


24 posted on 06/15/2016 1:17:41 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: Timpanagos1

I have been SB for decades and I have never seen a Confederate flag in any church I have been in In fact, I have never seen one in any church I have ever been in. I am 72.


25 posted on 06/15/2016 1:18:13 PM PDT by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: HomerBohn

I have never seen a Confederate flag in any church and I am 72.


26 posted on 06/15/2016 1:20:22 PM PDT by MamaB (Heb. 13:2)
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To: Dave W

” That flag has zero spiritual significance, meaning, etc.”

Maybe not to you , but for myself and millions of Americans if white Southern ancestry , the CBF IS our flag , nearly equal to the Stars and Stripes . We will love it and honor it forever . If that’s not spiritual I do not know what is . Our forefathers fought and died under that banner and we will not ever forget them , we will not ever deny the heritage which it represents .


27 posted on 06/15/2016 1:22:24 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse (America First !)
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To: onedoug

Gutless yellow pussies!


28 posted on 06/15/2016 1:23:20 PM PDT by Jim Shoe
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To: jimfree
I am soon to buy a set of Confederate flag lapel pins.

Good luck finding some. After the South Carolina church shootings Ebay and Amazon quit allowing the flag to be sold on their sites. But take heart, if you should need a Che tee shirt or a Mao tee shirt or a commie flag or a nazi flag they are still available.
29 posted on 06/15/2016 1:26:06 PM PDT by 762X51
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To: Timpanagos1

That’s your ancestors that you’re denying as a people who were doing what they thought was their right at the time.


30 posted on 06/15/2016 1:28:02 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: onedoug

‘ts’OK ... I’m independent, fundamental Baptist


31 posted on 06/15/2016 1:29:49 PM PDT by knarf
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To: LeoWindhorse

It’s not spiritual. You are misguided by your emotions. Hold onto your past and cling to it as proudly as you want, but there is zero spiritual significance to that flag. That flag has no more spiritual significance than a family’s coat of arms.


32 posted on 06/15/2016 1:32:00 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: chesley
I’ve never heard of it either. But the SBC cannot, CANNOT, tell individual churches what to do. They have independent authority.

What makes this Ironic is that the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern Virginia deliberately incorporated the Scottish Saltire as it's main theme. In other words, it's a Christian Cross that is it's primary symbol, like the flags of many nations of Europe.

33 posted on 06/15/2016 1:32:32 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Dave W
Exactly why are they idiots? That flag has zero spiritual significance, meaning, etc.

Let us examine this theory by looking elsewhere for a moment.

Do you see any "spiritual significance" in any of these flags?

Or this one?


34 posted on 06/15/2016 1:37:03 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp
You are purposely confusing the issue. The flag has zero, as in null, spiritual significance. Besides, I have never seen the flag in any church. Emotions are running a bit high with you today.

Value the flag all you want and all you need to, but there is nothing spiritual about it.

35 posted on 06/15/2016 1:58:41 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: Sacajaweau

Ridiculous. That is not the church’s job. The ONLY job the church has is to win souls for Christ and that does not include the battle flag.


36 posted on 06/15/2016 2:00:51 PM PDT by Dave W
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To: knarf

Oh, I love good ol’ fashion preachin’, sure. ‘Cept’n there seems today less and less tomorrow of it. Y’ know. Wi’ the media after God, n’ all?


37 posted on 06/15/2016 2:13:01 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Dave W
You are purposely confusing the issue.

I am purposely confusing the issue by pointing out that the flag is based on the Christian cross as it's primary symbol?

Sometimes I think much of the objection to it is a consequence of that fact. Liberals have never been very tolerant of Christianity or Christian symbols.

Besides, I have never seen the flag in any church.

I have not either, and I don't really understand why they would feel they need to make such an announcement.

Value the flag all you want and all you need to, but there is nothing spiritual about it.

I think it's spiritual value is in the eye of the beholder. Some may see it, others don't.

38 posted on 06/15/2016 2:20:44 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: DiogenesLamp

If I ever start a church I ‘ll probably have one. Sad when church leadership is so clueless. Maybe they are desperate for govt handouts , or new members.


39 posted on 06/15/2016 2:34:42 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%9)
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To: Ransomed

Never seen one displaying a confederate flag. Is this for individual members? Really strange.


40 posted on 06/15/2016 2:36:33 PM PDT by Carry me back (Cut the feds by 90%9)
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