I was driving around Baton Rouge this afternoon and saw a billboard advertising this upcoming event at a Southern Baptist Church in town. It reminded me of yesterday’s (really quite good) discussion here about why the Southern Baptist Convention is losing so many members.
My first reaction upon seeing the billboard was, “Man, how 1980s can they get?” I remember driving around Baton Rouge back in the Eighties when I was a college student there, and being shocked by passing a Baptist church that had a Howitzer on its front lawn, and a sign advertising an upcoming speech by Col. Oliver North. I was startled that a church would be so nakedly political and militaristic.
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