Southern Baptist Church, and Democrats Options

[Jaq]

A Southern Baptist church in East Waynesville, North Carolina has expelled all of its Democrats

Well, actually 9 of them have been expelled and another additional 40 left as protest.

From another message board:

She (posters mother) said WLOS tv just broke in to report that the East Waynesville Baptist church has officially excommunicated all its democratic members.

She said that before the election, the preacher told the congregation from the pulpit that if they didn't vote for * they had to come to the altar to confess their sins and repent. they could'nt be members. (My Mom doesn't attend that church--she's United Methodist, but I know of lots who do attend).

From Mom's email: "One of the local women who got excommunicated said on TV that it was like a cult. Another man who got excommunicated said that the rest of the congregation stood up and applauded as the Democrats were told to leave."

This seems to signal to me another step towards not just the gradual blurring of the boundary between church and state, but a full blown theocracy.

Ten Commandments in public places, debating homosexual marriage in the context of religion (when it's a secular government policy and wouldn't have any impact on churches as they wouldn't be required to perform homosexual marriage ceremonies), prayer in schools... the list goes on..


What think you? The States heading towards a theocracy, or am I just blowing things out of proportion? Would a theocracy be such a bad thing? Why? Why not? Please submit your essays by 5:00 p.m. 500 words or less.

[believe]

CommieBastard: My apologies. I'm just trying to be very tactul with this, considering feelings run pretty strong on both sides of the spectrum. >_o Hence watching wording and things very, very carefully. While I understand the Biblical point of view and don't feel I can deny it without denying my faith, I think that that particular argument is moronic and doesn't do anything but look stupid. 'oh, all these hideous things aren't hurting our children is much as the gay agenda/tv/whatever here'. Just bah.

What I feel people forget (and why I posted most of that) is the completely and utterly different world views involved. What might be a secular issue to someone, is a moral or religious one with a lot more to it and so on. You don't have to believe the other side to argue it obviously, but I think it helps make the debate a more intelligent and/or effective one. My naive side also hopes that people can eventually stop arguing over who's right and work on results.

[CommieBastard]

My naive side also hopes that people can eventually stop arguing over who's right and work on results. 

But unless we know who's right, we won't know which results we're aiming for. My results are very, very different from those of, say, your average Methodist preacher.