[ZULU]

My guess is the Southern Baptists are the traditional Christians and the splinter group represent modern day revisionist "feel-good" Christianity.

[chesley]

There's lot's of different Baptist denominations. The Southern Baptists are not involved in this at all. American Baptists are a totally different group. Besides, I think the SBs split from them, not the other way around.

[Gay State Conservative]

and the splinter group represent modern day revisionist "feel-good" Christianity.

You mean the "And I say unto thee,if it feelest good,thou shalt do it in the name of the Lord thy Pal" crowd?

[redgolum]

The American and Southern Baptists split shortly before the Civil War, over slavery. What is now the SBC was moderately pro slavery, while what became the ABC was abolitionist. The whole split came about as a result of a missionary wanting to bring his family slave along to the mission field.

In many ways, the split was a result of the same things that brought about the Civil War. Interesting that things are lining up in a similar fashion today.