Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion
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Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit DiscussionIn a time of the spring, old paths are obscured and new growth begins.
Peregrin Wood wrote about how the Southern Baptist Convention declared skepticism of a human role in global warming - even though the Southern Baptist Convention has no special scientific expertise with which to make an accurate decision in the matter.
The decisions of the Southern Baptist Convention are all based on faith - what the Baptists want to believe is true, rather than what what the facts suggest is true.
So, it really shouldn’t be surprising that the Southern Baptists decided to hush up an investigation into allegations that the number of Southern Baptists has been purposefully overblown. The Southern Baptist Convention decided not to examine the complaints that church leaders have been exaggerating the number of people in their churches in order to gain power for themselves.
That’s the fingerprint of faith: If leaders say something is true, then it’s true. If there are more people attending a church than anyone at the church ever sees, well then, the good reverend must be hiding them behind the curtains, right?
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June 19th, 2007 at 12:39 pm
Do you have a source, please?
June 21st, 2007 at 11:04 pm
The problem of accuracy in church attendance figures goes across religions but was first noted in the Lutheran Church some thirty years ago. Attendance figures are as a rule not compiled systematically, and the work is typically done by volunteers. When people join a church they get added to the rolls, but if they move away or drift away, there is often no trigger for someone to delete them from the rolls. Everyone who works with church attendance numbers has known about this for years; it’s hardly the stuff exposes are made of.
June 23rd, 2007 at 7:37 am
John, here’s a source on this story: “They quickly dispatched seven of eight proposed resolutions June 13, notably upholding the SBC resolution committee’s decision not to address how many people actually populate Southern Baptist churches.”
- Associated Baptist Press, June 13, 2007