Pop quiz! Who said "I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you. This is not a message of hate—this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor." –On "gay days" at Disneyworld
“Like many devout Baptists in the 1960s, Robertson still believed in the faith’s centuries-long tradition of a wall of separation between church and state. (President Thomas Jefferson coined that phrase, remember, in an 1801 letter to Baptists.) Despite his personal wishes, he fervently believed that religious figures had no role in partisan politics.”
A relative political quietism was definitely something that existed in the Southern Baptist Convention into very recent times.
I grew up in a Mississippi SBC church in the 1980s and 1990s. My great-uncle was, by any measure, devoutly religious and personally conservative. He abhorred modern sexual ethics, went to church three times a week (at least), was given life tenure as a deacon by our congregation, et cetera. Definitely the kind of guy you would imagine being a Republican activist today. And yet he genuinely loathed politicians of both parties and had no time for any suggestion that it was critically important for Christians to vote Republican. I recall his grudgingly admitting that he voted for H.W. Bush in 1988 because he was the “lesser of two evils”; I also recall his voicing horror at a news clip of H.W. drinking a beer.
He comes to mind when I see, for example, First Baptist Dallas hosting a Trump rally...or my old church putting a “Take Back America” yard sign on its lawn during the first years of the Obama administration.
Oh, and like many others, Kevin, I’m really glad that you’re on Substack.
Am I the only person who has favorite historians?
God, I hope not!
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Pop quiz! Who said "I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you. This is not a message of hate—this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor." –On "gay days" at Disneyworld
(a) Ron DeSantis
(b) Pat Robertson
Same one who said he could leg press 2000 lbs!
“Like many devout Baptists in the 1960s, Robertson still believed in the faith’s centuries-long tradition of a wall of separation between church and state. (President Thomas Jefferson coined that phrase, remember, in an 1801 letter to Baptists.) Despite his personal wishes, he fervently believed that religious figures had no role in partisan politics.”
A relative political quietism was definitely something that existed in the Southern Baptist Convention into very recent times.
I grew up in a Mississippi SBC church in the 1980s and 1990s. My great-uncle was, by any measure, devoutly religious and personally conservative. He abhorred modern sexual ethics, went to church three times a week (at least), was given life tenure as a deacon by our congregation, et cetera. Definitely the kind of guy you would imagine being a Republican activist today. And yet he genuinely loathed politicians of both parties and had no time for any suggestion that it was critically important for Christians to vote Republican. I recall his grudgingly admitting that he voted for H.W. Bush in 1988 because he was the “lesser of two evils”; I also recall his voicing horror at a news clip of H.W. drinking a beer.
He comes to mind when I see, for example, First Baptist Dallas hosting a Trump rally...or my old church putting a “Take Back America” yard sign on its lawn during the first years of the Obama administration.
Oh, and like many others, Kevin, I’m really glad that you’re on Substack.