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Thousands of Southern Baptists overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to advance a formal ban on women pastors in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, sending a clear message that men alone should preach to these conservative evangelical congregations.

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[-] fritobugger2017@lemmy.world 1 points 18 minutes ago

let's not forget that the sole reason that the Southern Baptist Convention exists is because they wanted to keep black folks out of their churches. When the big Baptist association was taking a stand on civil rights, the scum bags that would become the Southern Baptists took their ball and left.

[-] spitfire@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

I could get behind the idea of banning churches (in general).

[-] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The amendment would tighten existing restrictions in the Southern Baptist Convention, which already has a faith statement opposing women pastors.

So no self respecting pastor, man or woman, would be caught dead being a member of the Southern Baptist Convention to begin with from the sounds of it. Seems like a good question to ask the pastor if they are a member if you are the type afflicted with religion when church shopping.

[-] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 5 points 3 hours ago

As long as the Bible remains the way it is, this will keep happening. And as long as churches keep propping up doctrines like sola sciptura and biblical inerrancy, modifications to passages in the Bible will remain a niche thing.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 16 points 7 hours ago

Everyone who's been to a church knows how vitally important the speaker's pennis is to the sermon.

[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago
[-] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 15 points 9 hours ago

Trad-wives speed running to Gilead

Recently came across articles and videos of women who are actively fighting to lose their right to vote (they only want their husbands to), so yeah, this tracks.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

What's the point of having two catholic churches? This is removing the SB's only marketing niche.

Southern Baptists:

  • full of pedophiles
  • has women pastors

Catholic Church

  • full of pedophiles
  • no women priests
[-] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 38 points 13 hours ago

Remember, the Southern Baptists split from the mainstream Baptist Church because they supported enslavement.

[-] IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 7 points 10 hours ago

"Boys' club votes to confirm that girls are yucky and dumb" is all I see.

[-] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 9 points 12 hours ago

Maybe they should ban Southern Baptists?

[-] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 9 points 14 hours ago

Considering the vote was over 2/3 in favour of the motion, a lot of women would have voted in support of it. I don't support it, but I'm also not a baptist.

[-] SuperNovaStar 1 points 7 hours ago

🤣 You think they let women vote

[-] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 11 hours ago

I’m also not a baptist.

...and you're especially not a Southern Baptist, the most fundamentalist mainstream flavor of the baptists. The Bible says a lot of things, and every sect picks and chooses favorites, in this case there's a verse about not permitting a woman to teach or hold authority over a man that's probably relevant.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 8 points 14 hours ago

Its not surprising to me at all. Christianity is a patriarchal religion the same way all Abrahamic religions are. It's like kind of the point.

[-] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 3 points 13 hours ago

Yet, many Jewish sects have female rabbis.

[-] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 7 points 12 hours ago

Many Christian sects also have female leaders. The Episcopal Church comes to mind as one of the bigger ones. The Southern Baptists would say Episcopalianism is not Christianity, though. Hell, I think that's even their stance on Catholicism.

[-] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 hours ago

That's exactly what they say. The Chick comics go so far as to call the Catholic church the antichrist. They're kind of hilarious.

[-] CanIFishHere@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 hours ago

Without doing any research, I would say you are correct. They generally have a problem with Catholic saints, among other things.

[-] Ontimp@feddit.org 13 points 17 hours ago

Blessed be the fruit.

[-] usernametbd@lemmy.zip 16 points 20 hours ago

What do you expect from people who follow a 2,000+ year old book written by people we’d consider insane if we tried to speak with them today. It offers zero proof of its god and no one to this day has been able to bring any evidence. The bible’s been rewritten over a dozen times under the influence of kings with their own agendas. Yet somehow this work of fiction (by all applicable standards it should be) is what these people form their lives around. They magically always find a way to interpret its passages to support their own biases. Regardless of the amazing ideas philosophy and science have brought to humanity, they keep retreating to the magical thinking of the past. Of course they hate progress like women having power in their little club.

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