My "jersey" is for the home team of Jesus Christ and I cheer on with the angels over every soul that comes to repentance and faith in Christ. No church ever saved anyone - it is faith alone in Christ alone by the grace of God alone to the glory of God alone. I am grateful that I learned the truth through a Southern Baptist church and that forty-five years later, they are still doctrinally straight. I don't doubt you have some personal beef with the SBC. No human institution is perfect nor do its members escape being wrong from time to time, but what irks me the most about your crass personal insults and blanket condemnation of all Southern Baptist churches is that you BEGAN your tirade based not upon the subject of this thread - child sex abuse within a non-Catholic Christian church - but the mistaken idea that the SBC has no process for screening out child abusers - though that was shown to NOT be the case. You claimed:
The SBC leadership is completely corrupt. Even Don Wildmon at the AFA is calling the SBC out for its surrender on cultural issues. So, even though this scandal doesn’t touch the SBC, the SBC is a scandal all by itself - it is covertly becoming nothing more than CBF-lite. So much for the “Conservative Resurgence”.
Perhaps you need some "education" of your own.
Your first paragraph confirms my first point. You have a reading comprehension problem that I’m not going to try to correct. I have consistently commented on the SBC leadership, not the churches. By the way, I said nothing about whether the SBC has or doesn’t have a process for screening employees in individuals churches. The fact is that they don’t have that responsibility and shouldn’t because the churches are independent. At the annual meetings there are, however, always vendors of background checking services trying to get the attention of pastors. That doesn’t make the SBC responsible for what happens in the individual churches, and it is just about as far as the Convention should go, other than exhorting member churches to exercise care. If you were familiar with the CBF, you would have understood what I was criticizing regarding movement in the wrong direction on cultural issues. And, no, I won’t give you a link to tell you what the CBF is.
As for remedying the rest of your ignorance by supplying you with links to information that you should already be aware of if you are going to have a responsible opinion on the subject, I’m not bothering. You aren’t alone, though, I don’t provide links to people who become indignant when I tell them that nobody is really paying SS taxes into a true trust fund. When someone lacks even a minimal knowledge base on a topic, the onus is on him to inform himself. You might learn something.