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To: MarkBsnr
How effective has the SBC been in ridding itself of entities like Westboro Baptist?

What authority would the SBC have over that little 80 member family cult, what relationship do they have?

69 posted on 07/09/2011 2:26:56 PM PDT by ansel12 (America has close to India population of 1950s, India has 1,200,000,000 people now. Quality of Life?)
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To: ansel12

Since it’s clear that the SBC has no authority over cults that call themselves Baptist, and since the number of cults using the Baptist name is unknown, and since their beliefs and practices are unobserved, the true number of pedophiles in the SBC is actually also unknown, as is the way the Baptists deal with them.

Non-Catholics often praise themselves for the way they take legal action against child molesters in their churches, but there is no way to know that, is there? Churches that drive out the complaining witnesses, that blame the victims, that pass the perpetrator along without advising the next congregation of misdeeds are not unknown and examples have been published on this forum.

It is not a case of perfection in one church, and a problem solely of Catholics, no matter how pleasant that thought may be to some.


71 posted on 07/09/2011 2:44:33 PM PDT by Judith Anne ( Holy Mary, Mother of God, please pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death.)
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To: ansel12
What authority would the SBC have over that little 80 member family cult, what relationship do they have?

As it turns out, none. Same as any moron that calls himself Catholic (Mel Gibson's dad e.g.).

88 posted on 07/09/2011 6:25:00 PM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so..)
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