Southern Baptists Are Like Jews During WWII? Ronnie Floyd Makes a Ridiculous Analogy

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BY JONATHAN ORBELL JUNE 19, 2015

“This is a Bonhoeffer moment for every pastor in the United States,” explained Ronnie Floyd, President of America’s largest—and most rapidly declining—evangelical denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

With SCOTUS’ upcoming decision regarding same-sex unions looming large in the minds of religious conservatives, Floyd took to the podium to remind the faithful that, whatever SCOTUS decides, the SBC will continue to affirm “biblical and traditional marriage.” As Bible-believing Christians, they will not—nay, cannot—yield in the face of LGBTQ advocates’ cultural offensive.

Floyd referred repeatedly to Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian whose resistance to the Nazis led to his execution. He reminded American evangelicals that, “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.” Apparently, in this analogy, the LGBTQ community and its advocates are Hitler and the SS, while Floyd, and Southern Baptists everywhere, are the Jews. White, evangelical Christians are, in this analogy, victimized to a level on par with what is arguably humanity’s greatest atrocity.

This language is nothing new, and religious conservatives have long held the belief that they constitute a righteous minority (or a suppressed majority, as historian Jonathan J. Edwards has noted). They exist as aliens in a country increasingly filled with liberals and/or secularists bent on destroying an amorphous set of “family values.”

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