Posted on 01/11/2007 3:00:34 PM PST by wouldntbprudent
Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter needed their Southern Baptist credentials during their political years in order to boost their electoral appeal. Now the pair, who have both been publicly criticized in the past by Southern Baptist Convention leaders, are helping to move the denomination against life and family as they did the country.
At the Carter Center in Atlanta Tuesday, Clinton and Carter were on hand to announce a 2008 Baptist convocation which hopes to attract 20,000 Baptists from North America. They say it hopes to recast the Baptist image as less 'negative and judgemental'. The tentative date for the convocation is Jan. 30-Feb. 1, 2008 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta.
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They would not get anywhere with people I go to church with. We are very conservative.
I used to be naive and think all churches were good but recent events in my life and news like this convinces me that there are huge "churches" in this country that are completely void of the Holy Spirit and whose leadership financially prospers from fleecing the flock of their "tithes".
I'm thinking that it's the American Baptists - the liberal denomination among the Baptists - that will probably be involved in this and that few if any Southern Baptists will be taken in. The American Baptist Churches have many of the same problems with liberalism as do the Episcopalians, United Methodists, United Church of Christ types, Presbyterian Church-USA types, and Evangelical Lutheran Church types.
One is a terrorist sympathiser and the other one is a murder; rapist; liar; thief; both of whom are the highest reguarded members of the DemocRATic party...that right there should tell ya all something.....
Toss a coin
Duh!!! What a neat idea!
No, it doesn't. In fact, while unfortunate, Paul pretty much considered disagreements unavoidable.
The Bible DOES, however, take a rather firm line about those who preach a false Gospel, which is almost certainly at issue with Jew-Hater Carter and If-it-Feels-Good-Do-It Clinton.
They say it hopes to recast the Baptist image as less "negative and judgemental".........................
Who better to try to change a religion to condone backstabbing and sexual harassment than these two?
Let's all just "do our own thing".
Their contempt for the flock is revolting.
Such arrogance!
FMCDH(BITS)
And Barney Frawnk is gonna be the 1st preacher I bet.
Gee, this is such a surprise.
Carter is either suffering from dementia or he's just plain insane. Either way, he's an embarrassment for the Liberals and for the country. He and Pelosi make a good pair; they're both wackjobs.
You are no longer naive. That's good.
It makes perfect sense from their perspective. You have two of the worst Presidents of the modern era trying to destroy the "religious right" from within. Get these people to not care about family morals or what the Bible actually says (coming to you from the man who is not sure what the definition of "is" is), and you take away a huge chunk of the Republican party.
The Bible does talk about false teachers...who better to convince fools that the Bible doesn't mean what it says (for political gain to boot)? Satan is alive and well.
The Christian credentials for the "Shan" (previously known as the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001") and that well-known benefactor of mankind, Jimmy Carter, have always been suspect. As Christians, both of them make darned good Muslims. They are BOTH total counterfeits.
"One is a terrorist sympathiser and the other one is a murder; rapist; liar; thief"
Remember who was good friends with Yassir Arafat
Isn't wonderful how the Bible has an answer for everything?
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