THREAD: A few weeks ago, @CharlieDates was slammed for calling the Southern Baptist seminary presidents the theological architects of American slavery. Of course, he wasn’t talking about the current CSP.

He was talking about the SBC Founders. And he’s 100% correct.

The SBC began for the sole purpose of allowing slave-owners to support and become missionaries.

The SBC decided, as a whole, that “mission” was completely unaffected by treating fellow image-bearers as property. The Great Commission trumped black life and liberation.

So, when @CharlieDates says the seminary presidents are the theological architects of slavery, he’s hit the nail on the head.

The deadly theology of the SBC Founders contributed to a century and a half of black suffering, all in the name of “mission.”

The SBC decided that “Great Commission Cooperation” was more important than the dominical command to love your neighbor as yourself.

To argue that mission is more than this is nonsensical, because to disobey this command is to fail to participate in God’s mission.

And by the way, it certainly seems to me that not much has changed.

“This isn’t an issue worth dividing over,” many of us hear from well-meaning Southern Baptists.

We are the white moderates. We are the ones saying “wait.” We are filling up the measure of our fathers.

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