Friday, September 22, 2017

Southern Baptists Back Confederate Monument Removal in Memphis

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 Southern Baptists Back Confederate Monument Removal in Memphis
A NPR/PBS News Hour/Marist Poll survey taken after the protests found that few white evangelicals agreed that statues honoring Confederate leaders should be taken down. Only 6 percent said they should be removed because they offend some people, far fewer than the 27 percent of Americans and 40 percent of African Americans who wanted to see them removed.

While a plurality of African Americans defended such statues as historical symbols, white evangelicals were more likely to do so; 85 percent believed they should remain, compared to 62 percent of Americans and 44 percent of African Americans.

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After Charlottesville, more Christians are aligning with efforts to remove Confederate names and landmarks. In the past week, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) and about a dozen of its pastors called for the removal of a Confederate statue in Memphis, Tennessee, while members of a historic Episcopal church in Lexington, Virginia, voted to remove Robert E. Lee from its name.

The SBC’s Steve Gaines, senior pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church, joined more than 150 Memphis-area clergy in a letter requesting the state historical commission relocate a statue of Memphis native Nathan Bedford Forrest. The Confederate general and early Ku Klux Klan leader is buried in a city park that bore his name until 2013.

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4 comments:

  1. ArthurSeptember 22, 2017 at 2:12 PM

    "After Charlottesville, more Christians are aligning with efforts to remove Confederate names and landmarks"

    Sorry, that should read "former Christian Churches, having been hollowed out and worn like Edgar-style skinsuits by lefty a-holes..."

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    1. Brock TownsendSeptember 22, 2017 at 2:44 PM

      "former Christian Churches, having been hollowed out and worn like Edgar-style skinsuits by lefty a-holes..."

      I left the Episcopal church during the Vietnam War.

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    2. WeaverSeptember 23, 2017 at 8:30 PM

      Where do you go to church then? If it's public info, I mean :)

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    3. Brock TownsendSeptember 23, 2017 at 9:15 PM

      :) I don't any more and am like my good friend George.

      Prayer: Something I Had Forgotten About Concerning The Last Days of Saigon

      First, I will certainly pray for ............ Although I am no longer a good Episcopalian (sort of like I am pissed at the GOPe), I have recently recharged my Christian batteries and while I don't attend a brick and mortar meetings, I do pray- hard and often. (Anyone with children should get used to praying). I recall you and I prayed in the Cholon Church (at the end of Tran Hung Dao) during the last days of Saigon. The key is not to focus on ourselves but the soul of others."

      https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2016/03/prayer-something-i-had-forgotten-about.htmlorge.

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