DC Al Fine
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« on: June 03, 2018, 06:44:36 AM » |
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« edited: June 03, 2018, 09:01:35 AM by DC Al Fine »
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I've been following this story for a couple days and was wondering when this was going to pop up here. Some quick thoughts.
1) We were due for something like this. Anyone who thought this was a Catholic problem, secular or religious, was kidding themselves.
2) I'm pleased that the SBTS has taken a lesson from the Catholic Church's response to the issue and canned Patterson... Although I can't say they were 100% on the ball on this, they at least made the right call, however belatedly.
3) There's an interesting factional aspect to this. The two major leaders going down (and their defenders) were leaders of the the conservative resurgence in the Southern Baptist Convention of the 70's and 80's. That wing of the denomination tends to be more "traditionalist" (anti-Calvinist in Baptist parlance), more attached to moral majority politics, and more Silent/Boomer. Their opponents tend more Calvinist, more attached to religious minority politics, and more Gen X/Millennial.
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