Obviously you blew off the history and its sources that I provided without so much as reading it. I don't care what you or anyone else labels me as, Baptist, Anabaptist, whatever. It's just a name. It's been done for two thousand years, and I fully believe it will continue until He returns.
Persecution is nothing new to us. I tell you what friend. We'll just let Jesus settle it all in the end and decide what is fiction and what is Truth. My trust is in Him and in Him only, not in any church made up and ran by regular sinful humans, nor in any other authority of man's making. Choose this day whom you will serve. Good day.
Look, I respect the SBC as serious Christians whose Anabaptist forbears were undoubtedly persecuted for their theological convictions. The SBC is one of the few organizations in the world standing between civilization and utter ruin today.
Inventing secret histories and conspiracy theories is entirely unnecessary and counterproductive and does nothing to burnish Bible believers' credentials.
My trust is in Him and in Him only, not in any church made up and ran by regular sinful humans, nor in any other authority of man's making.
I feel the exact same way, and I don't need to pretend that the Montanist and Albigensian pagans were actually Christians in order to make that claim.
I was raised Roman Catholic. I rejected that church and the associated cult. I came to Christ much later and became a Baptist because the beliefs and tenets of the Baptists are those I believe to be most closely aligned with the Truth of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the understandings that come to me through the Holy Spirit. Whether you call me a Baptist, or a Feltonist, or whatever, is irrelevant. I chose to join a fellowship of others who similarly chose to adopt the tenets of Baptists (Southern Baptsists mostly).
We did not investigate the history and join the history, we joined the present.