Al Mohler Just Had NO IDEA About All That Sexual Harassment in the SBC.
The Paige Patterson scandal continues apace. Every new day brings with it a new revelation about just how terrible the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), his home denomination, really is for women. A few days ago, Al Mohlerone of the denominations biggest namestried to cool that fire a little. Well, he only made it worse. Today Ill show you what he said and why he probably said it. And Ill show you how hes likely only made the SBCs position worse.
Al Mohler is one of the SBCs biggest names. Hes been active in the denomination since before I even (briefly) joined it in the mid-1980s. Among a constellation of successes in right-wing Christianity, hes been a president of the SBCs flagship seminary (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary), a big name in Focus on the Family, and a member of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (CBMW).
As a hardline Calvinist, hes also one of the chief architects of the so-called Conservative Resurgence, which is the SBCs name for the political takeover and complete domination of the denomination by hard-right fundagelicals. He and his fellow architects fought for years, but when they finished the fight, the SBC looked like it does today: authoritarian, utterly and completely regressive, focused single-mindedly on its quest for the sheer domination of American culture, and mercilessly, ruthlessly intolerant of dissenters within its ranks.
Under Al Mohlers careful cultivation, the SBC shriveled and lost every single bit of whatever good spirit it had ever possessed. They stopped being evangelical and began being fundagelicals.
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