To hear Newsmax tell it, Southern Baptists have taken a “dangerous turn left.”
For our money (and we know thing or two about Southern Baptists as this writer was raised as one), the Southern Baptist Convention’s election of a “moderate” pastor as its president represents a turn away from the seemingly-not-so-religious hard-line right-wingers.
Newsmax, in an online column, quoted a New York Times headline: “Southern Baptists Narrowly Head Off Conservative Takeover.” The Newsmax columnist wrote that a “dejected Christian” told him “Biden Baptists won the day.”
Who was it who coined the phrase “separation of church and state?”
Well they – specifically Thomas Jefferson – were shortsighted.