Redemption for the Baptist Church In America

The Southern Baptist Church has taken my church into the realm of fanaticism, politics and the support of beliefs that are fundamentally Ant-Christ and Anti-Christian not to mention totally against the whole purpose and founding of the Baptist Denomination.

Baptist began in America with British and Scot immigrants who left their native lands for the sole purpose of being able to practice religion as their conscience dictated freely. Baptist hated with a passion the interference of State religions such as Presbyterianism in Scotland and the Anglican Church in England. Baptists wanted no connection to any state or government whatsoever and demanded any state or church keep their priests and controllers out of their lives and their religion.

President Carter and President Clinton are leading an effort to return the Baptist Church in the United States back to it's orgins and reality.

Read all about it at this web site:

http://www.biblicalrecorder.org/content/news/2007/01_09_2007/ne090107clinton.shtml

A quote:

"most North Americans have of Baptists comes from conservative leaders who frequently appear on television news shows or other media. They represent some of the most negative rhetoric, most conservative political views and most fundamentalist theology among the broad range of Baptist denominations and congregations. "They are increasingly defining the Baptist witness in North America," he said.
"North America desperately needs a true Baptist witness," Underwood told leaders of the 30-plus Baptist denominational entities, which range from conservative to progressive. "There's no organization in this room that has a strong enough voice ... but the organizations in this room together do have a strong enough voice."
Underwood said Baptists need to be known for feeding the hungry, healing the sick and working for justice.
The organizations represented by meeting participants comprise about 20 million Baptists in North America, the event's organizers noted. That's more than the 16 million members claimed by the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Baptist group in the world, whose leaders have moved sharply to the political and theological right in the last 25 years".

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