OnlySubs Episode 80: The Southern Baptist Convention & The Subordination of Scripture is available for FREE to everyone! To get access to all past and future episodes, consider becoming a contributor on one of the following platforms:
Facebook
Locals
Odysee
Patreon
Subscribestar
Substack
YouTube Members
In April of 2019, the famously conservative Southern Baptist Convention adopted an infamous resolution, Resolution 9, bringing into the Convention both Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality “as an analytical tool subordinate to Scripture.” This is, at best, a fundamental misunderstanding of Woke Marxism (thus CRT/I), which are explicitly designed to identify anything they are put in subordination to, subvert that thing, and then occupy a position of dominance over it (which they deny they are doing). In this must-listen episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I go into this facet of Theory and raise important questions about why anyone would think this was a good idea. Join me to hear all about the threat from within to a conservative religious icon.
This episode is also available on SoundCloud, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Pandora, YouTube, Rumble, Odysee or by RSS.
Additional episodes of OnlySubs can be found here.
5 comments
Note the tactic for driving through a controversial policy without proper consideration or time for discussion. I saw this repeatedly in my Civil Service union conferences in England. There were hundreds of motions submitted by local branches to the national Annual Conference, which was the ruling body of the union. These were boiled down to around 130 motions to be discussed over four days.
But, of course, there was never enough time to discuss 130 motions. There were countless ways to pass or reject certain motions. And the old hands on the National Executive Council, loaded with old school Communists and Scottish Masons, knew every trick. One unwelcome motion was bypassed instantly by one manipulator calling out “Move to next business!”, leaving the honest ignorant delegates stunned and flat footed. An unwelcome motion could be placed as Motion 86 in the section of Motions 77 to 86 to be discussed between 1030 and 1200. So you might get as far as discussing and voting on Motions 77 to 82 before 1200. Motions 83 to 86 would be guillotined and never discussed.
The NEC was of course totally opposed to the motion calling for the investigation of Masonic influence in the Civil Service….though it was finally passed over their objections. You could be sure that the motion calling for affiliation to the Cuban Solidarity Campaign would be discussed and passed.
Are all colonial/imperial projects throughout history “crimes”? Or is it only the Western one that deserves that designation?
I sat under Dr.Mohler at Boyce parent /student preview day. He was questioned repeatedly about CRT and he absolutely is solidly opposed to this worldview. I don’t know how he was brought into this, but he refuted it like he’s defending his life in doing so. But as you say, we all must stop pussy footing around! Thanks for this great podcast! More please!
But the scriptures have been used to justify every conceivable crime ever since what became the “official” institutional church came into existence 1700 years ago. Including the entire Western imperial/colonial project, slavery, the subjugation of women and the beating of children (to beat the “devil” out of them). Check out The Hammer of Witches which was used to justify the “witch”-burning hysteria which raged throughout Europe and parts of America too.
That “official” institutional church and its fabricated Bible was created by those who won the culture wars of their time and place. The thus created Bible was put together by selecting some of the many differing interpretations of the life and teaching of Jesus that existed at the time.
It was thus used by the self-appointed church fathers to consolidate their very worldly power and controls, and silence even murder all dissenters as “heretics”.
The official “catholic” church has always been a “heresy”-hunting outfit. One of its biggest and blood-saturated “heresy” hunting/exterminating exercise occurred in France with the systematic murder of the Cathars – exterminate all of them was the official policy. And of course there was also the Inquisition and the still existent outfit which Ratzinger used to head up or control, which excommunicated various famous “heretics” such as Hans Kung and Matthew Fox.
Anyone can take something out of context from the bible and “use it to justify every conceivable crime” that does not mean the book as a whole actually justifies that crime. Jesus never used coercive state power. The use of that failed under Isreal prior as it collapsed morally and spiritually under roman proto-fascism. But rome then collapsed under it’s own weight and coopted christianity. The attempt to merge church and state under it is where those errors “used to justify” came about. As far as the text, followers had seen Jesus in person and there was an oral tradition of the letters of paul and the apostles. The gnostic gospels you’re talking about are obviously different and were assessed by the church fathers correctly as such. But Ethiopian orthodox includes some of those books still, so there is some level of diversity within christianity about which texts are edge cases. The church fathers themselves, some consider highly, while others find them not to reach the level of other texts. And yes catholicism has hunted heretics, but itself was riddled with heresy, now more glaringly than ever by giving one man authority to override the words of Christ himself. “By their fruits ye shall know them” and the fruits you speak of, speak for themselves. But not all who cal; themselves christians have this fruit or approve of the rationales of those who do.
Just as there is ultimate evil, there also is ultimate good.