dimanche 29 mai 2022

Catholics, Baptists, and now Evangelicals, oh my!

First it was the Catholics busted time and time again overlooking pedophile priests.

Recently it turned out abuse was rampant in the Southern Baptist churches as well.

From the link:
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Devastating, heartbreaking, infuriating - that is how our Albert Mohler describes the 300-page, third-party report about decades of sexual abuse and cover up in the Southern Baptist Convention. The SBC, which is the largest evangelical denomination in the country, commissioned this investigation and report. And as the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Mohler is a leader in the church. He joins us now to talk about the report and what comes next. Welcome.

So who would have guessed abuse of women, especially young women is one of the tenets of the Evangelicals as well. The image is that they are all about Jesus. The author of Jesus and John Wayne, How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and fractured a Nation (Amazon link) presents a different view of Evangelicals.

Here's an interview with the author, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, on Amanpour and Company discussing her thorough investigation of Evangelicals for the book she wrote:

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