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lees1975

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4. Yes, as the article in the link points out
Fri Jun 13, 2025, 12:36 AM
Jun 13

From the Signal Press

Perhaps the presence of individuals Southern Baptists want to publicly label as "sinners" instead of neighbors is something they see as an indictment of themselves, because of their ineffectiveness in their ministry of evangelism, winning converts to Christ who then reflect what they consider to be the values of the Christian gospel. They've got some idea that God is going to judge the country because it does not collectively adhere to a specific religious practice and because of the presence of certain kinds of sinners. So God is going to judge America because of gays, lesbians, and transgendered persons, along with childless couples and single people who choose not to marry, but not because of Southern Baptist pastors and youth leaders who rape and abuse members of their congregation, or Presidents who are serial adulterers, liars, rebellious insurrectionists and rapists?

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