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brooklynite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 07:30 AM Original message |
Southern Baptists in ‘doldrums,’ leader says ahead of meeting |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 07:36 AM Response to Original message |
1. "no one was at fault for the church’s stagnant growth"? Perhaps God! n/t |
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texanshatingbush (435 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
2. Maybe because of this asshole! |
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quaoar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 07:51 AM Response to Original message |
3. My Baptist joke |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 08:40 AM Response to Reply #3 |
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Francine Frensky (870 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-05 04:11 PM Response to Reply #3 |
34. How do you keep a baptist from drinking all your beer |
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ktowntennesseedem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 07:52 AM Response to Original message |
4. Recovering Southern Baptist here. |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 08:03 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Raised and recovering SB here too. |
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colonel odis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 09:00 AM Response to Reply #5 |
11. another former southern baptist, here. |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 10:10 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. One of my former ministers spent years working |
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ktowntennesseedem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 03:15 PM Response to Reply #5 |
18. Same here, I've always been far to the left of mainstream |
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fleabert (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 05:55 PM Response to Reply #4 |
20. me too. |
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VegasWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-05 03:32 PM Response to Reply #4 |
32. Can't they just go on a gay-bashing binge and be happy. nt |
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Samantha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-05 04:57 PM Response to Reply #4 |
35. Thank you for your candor |
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leesa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
6. Let me give you a clue...you are waaay off track, you racist, misogynist, |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 08:37 AM Response to Original message |
7. Why the doldrums? Couldn't they pick one group to focus their hate on? |
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madrchsod (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 08:51 AM Response to Original message |
9. the baptist church maybe splitting into |
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bleedingheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
10. There are many other churches suffering the same problem |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 09:01 AM Response to Original message |
12. hmm maybe they could bring back slavery so they can |
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gratuitous (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 09:43 AM Response to Original message |
13. It's always easier to feign ignorance |
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mondo joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 09:56 AM Response to Original message |
14. Like an addict in the doldrums between hits |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
15. I hope they go over the edge advocating theocracy. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
16. Verrrrry interesting |
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daleo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 05:29 PM Response to Original message |
19. "Stagnant growth" |
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Prisoner_Number_Six (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 06:00 PM Response to Original message |
21. If they were on the right path |
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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Jun-17-05 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
22. the numbers........ |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-05 12:04 AM Response to Original message |
23. They're ripe for a hostile takeover! We should flood in, seize control, |
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Voltaire99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-05 05:10 AM Response to Original message |
24. If you can't attract new recruits in this era of Fundamentalism Gone Wild |
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Jose Diablo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-05 07:15 AM Response to Original message |
25. They are in doldrums alright |
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AnnInLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-05 07:24 AM Response to Original message |
26. And, if you don't have a husband, then |
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mzteris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-05 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
27. looking ahead...... |
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freethought (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-05 09:09 AM Response to Original message |
28. They want to withdraw from public schools eh!? Hmmmm. |
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BobbyinPortland (104 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-05 09:15 AM Response to Original message |
29. fuck 'em! I was once Baptist, but I got better |
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mitchum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-05 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
30. They are never held under the water long enough |
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Zerex71 (692 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-05 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
31. They should be. They're fringe freaks who believe fairy tales. |
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Sgent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-05 03:54 PM Response to Reply #31 |
33. The truley interesting thing |
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dameocrat (220 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jun-18-05 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
36. Why would anyone be attracted to the church that wasn't a rich |
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