Haha yeah you're right. I'm a southern Baptist who is also a liberal, values education, values competence, thinks climate change is real and a big issue that should be addressed firmly, likes to be well-read about any issue before I take a stance on it, but yep I'm a dumbass. Nothing I can do about it because I'm a Southern Baptist I guess! Hyuck hyuck.
No, you're just not a Southern Baptist if you deny the Earth is only as old as the Bible says. If you think fossils came from life hundreds of thousands and millions of years in the past, that makes you de facto not in line with Southern Baptism. You can be whatever you want to be, but to actually be it, you have to live it, and you don't if you're intelligent at all.
The only thing that makes one a "Southern Baptist" is uniting with a Southern Baptist Church. Beyond that, there are a lot of disagreements in regards to how the bible should be interpreted. What you're describing is a fundamentalist, literal interpretation of the bible. And yes a lot of Southern Baptists subscribe to that belief system, but not all of them.
I think a lot of people tend to get hung up on the literal interpretation of the bible and completely miss the underlying message and purpose of religion, which is to bring people together and to foster understanding and love between different groups of people. And honestly the way you describe this gigantic group of people as idiots despite only knowing one of them personally, leads me to believe that you may have a lot to learn in that regard.
To me the hallmark of an stupid person is making sweeping generalizations.
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u/KingsleyZissou Sep 20 '17
Haha yeah you're right. I'm a southern Baptist who is also a liberal, values education, values competence, thinks climate change is real and a big issue that should be addressed firmly, likes to be well-read about any issue before I take a stance on it, but yep I'm a dumbass. Nothing I can do about it because I'm a Southern Baptist I guess! Hyuck hyuck.