Posted on 06/30/2023 10:40:26 PM PDT by Morgana
Arkansas-based minister Mike Keller, who is associated with the Duggar family, is currently in the hot seat. This follows the emergence of clips on the internet showing him delivering a wild, wild sermon that is illogical and ignorant at best and steeped in racism at worst.
Keller is the father of Anna Duggar and the father-in-law of convicted pedophile Josh Duggar, who is currently serving a 12.5-year sentence for possessing CSAM. Showing his poor judgment, Keller previously penned a letter to the judge, pleading for leniency towards Duggar. He described him as “very gentle, kind and polite to everyone” and cited an instance where Duggar covered half the cost of a transmission repair for a customer at his dealership as a testament to his peaceful nature.
For a quarter of a century, Keller has volunteered in the prison system and occasionally performed guest sermons. During one such sermon at Fairpark Baptist Church in Fort Worth, Texas, Keller recounted how he was advised by a pastor friend not to attend the January 6 rally at the Capitol building, citing it as a “trap.”
Heeding this advice, Keller says that he decided not to attend and then draws a wonky parallel between the wisdom of Republicans not protesting at the rally, to enslaved black folks in the 19th century not protesting either.
“Folks, I want to tell you; it is really simple. I’ll show you how to change America.”
A hundred-fifty years ago, or 200 years ago when the blacks were slaves. Did they ever go to Washington D .C. and have a rally 200 years ago to protest against slavery? Did they? No. What did they do? Well, a lot of good people in the plantations would say, ‘hey, it’s wintertime. Let’s let us help build a church for you, dear folk.’ And they loved them and taught them how to read so they could read the Bible. And here’s what the blacks did about 150 years ago.
They humbled themselves. They prayed. They sought God’s face and they turned from their wicked ways. And God made slavery illegal through several white Presidents, right? It worked, didn’t it? They didn’t protest.
Maybe there’s a place for protest. I don’t know. But that was a wise pastor that warned his flock (not to attend the rally)”
There’s nothing to love there any everything to hate. Keller spins a revisionist tale where “good people on the plantations,” presumably slave owners, benevolently built churches for the enslaved Black community and taught them to read – specifically, the Bible. This narrative conveniently overlooks the well-documented reality that enslaved Black people were usually forbidden to learn to read, were generally denied their preferred religious practices, often had to construct their own living spaces, many that were in shambles, and were to the man terrorized and abused by their ‘Masters.’
Futher, his comments about how slaves didn’t protest but rather were rescued by Presidents afte rthey ‘turned from their wicked ways’ ignored the influential Black abolitionists who used their words and actions to fight for change, the courageous efforts of Black Underground Railroad conductors who risked their lives to help others escape to freedom, and the countless individuals who participated in slave rebellions across the U.S.
Perhaps most ignorantly, Keller also glossed over the fact that evil and abominable slave owners typically denied their human property the basic right of free movement and to travel at will- and were not so keen to let their slaves travel off to Washington to rally and protest their own captivity.
So we’re not allowed to talk about when evangelicals do or say stupid things? Just Catholics and mainline protestants?
CC
humm.
well, ‘glossing’ over all the details that are indeed nettling, the basic historical truth, that has been authenticated to my satisfaction in many original sources (christian and secular), is that, it was a long movement of christian white abolitionists, including many christian Founders of the Constitution (who not only protested, but, under the active providence of God, fought and won a bloody war against a so called ‘christian’ king and supporter of slavery and the trade) who actually sowed the seeds of black slavery’s demise in Britain and America.
but it is also true that many slaves were converted, by those same abolitionists and other Christian evangelists) to the Faith and drew great wisdom, comfort and solace from their true, suffering Savior, and were able to rise up when the opportunity came for freedom in the God sent person of A. Lincoln.
my two cents.
Well it’s like this. Please talk about how stupid this was.
Please talk about it now before the Rev. Al Sharpton and Reeevereeend Jeeessseeee Jaaaaaaakksooon get a hold of this story because you know they will talk about it for hours on CNN.
I have not heard from those two in a long time and I would like to keep it that way. Even if it’s not them you know Whoopi or some other famous black celebrity is going to tear this apart. It will be noticed because this man’s connection with the Duggar family.
Sorry, I am not going to apologize and grovel to the left over the silly parallels some preacher made.
It wouldn’t stop the leftist media from talking about it endlessly so why bother?
You can’t fix stupid
Don’t give them fuel for the fire.
This preacher should have had more sense and if he really that stupid he needs to step down.
I think it was noticed because it’s incredibly dumb and involves pretzel logic of the worst kind.
CC
Ugh, that family, again.
I’m noticing he didn’t volunteer to be a slave
St Paul was right.
Acts 20:29-30 King James Version (KJV)
For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you, not sparing the flock. Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
Hey Morgana,
Seems like you are overly obsesessed with the Protestant side of the issue?
Maybe just a tad bit (Catholic) self-defensive?
The term “Protestant” has been stretched to be practically meaningless.
Right now we use it as a catch-all for “Western non-Catholic groups who vaguely say they are Christian”
Note that I said “vaguely” - because we have
1. The Oneness Pentecostals who deny the Trinity - are they Christian? They say they are
2. The Unitarians - who were and called themselves Christians until the 1960s, now they don’t
3. The Christian Scientists
4. The Seventh Day Adventists.
And the myriad fundamental differences between the different groups labelled “Protestant” - like Lutherans and Anglicans having an episcopacy and having sacraments (the Lutherans consider the Eucharist to be the True Presence of the Body and Blood of Christ) v/s Baptist beliefs of the same. etc. etc.
We need to come up with another term — I use the phrase “Western non-Catholic groups” — or WeNoCgos
More religious hate?
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